Gimlé

A few links I haven’t seen on other journals:

• Tim O’reilly talks about Apple as an Innovator (or more to the point: why Apple is percieved as an innovator). The O’reilly Publishing weblogs are worth checking on a regular basis in any case.

• Anytime anybody asks me why I think comics are capable of being literature I throw the Fantagraphics catalog at them. They are to comics what Eastgate Systems are to hypertext…

  …It, that is.

  The most insightful and analytical critics, the theorists, the artists and the writers.

  If it’s comics, intelligent and matters, nine times out of ten it’s also Fantagraphics.

  The reason why I mention this is that they need your help. Go over there and buy some books from them.

  Them’s good readin’.

• Tim Bray says smart things about the Iraq War that I wish I’d have said.

• Wait… there’s more.

  Tim Bray points out that it isn’t CSS that’s difficult but Internet Exporer’s buggy implementation that’s a hassle.

  (Yes I know Dave Winer linked to this one, but I think he completely misrepresented the post as an anti-CSS post. And as we all know, only about one person in five actually follows a link to see for him or herself.)

• I’m here in the complete Garfield archives online.

My Icelandic metabolism is telling me that it’s tropical out there and barely tolerable.

The English around me are saying that the weather’s rarely this good and that I should savor it.

And they stare at me when I say that I’d like it to be about three or four degrees colder, at least (centigrade, of course).

And it’s too humid, but then again, the UK is always humid.

Baldur.
Clifton, Bristol.