The Internet, and its offspring, the Web, is an amazing thing.
I started out on CNET’s Webware Weekly for today (in Eudora’s in box), doubleclicking on the The 10 things you may complain about (and five you may not) link, which is an amusing rant (his term) from Rafe Needleman.
One of his “things” you may complain about is Guy Kawasaki. I guess I’m not terribly surprised Guy made this list; OTOH, it’s publicity, right? Any road, Rafe gives links to two of Guy’s current projects, Truemors and Alltop. I vaguely remembered hearing about Truemors before, so I clicked the link to see what was up there.
#2 on the “Greatest” list at the top was The Fading Fragrance of Flowers, complete with link to the originating article on the UK’s Daily Express’ Web site.
I originally didn’t get to the original because of the comment to the Truemors post: “…It is well-known that pollution has been affecting the earth since the late 1800’s…” with a link to ENN’s piece, Arctic pollution’s surprising history, which goes on to say:
“…By searching through historic records written by early Arctic explorers, Garrett and his collaborator Lisa Verzella, former undergraduate student at the University of Utah, were able to find evidence of an aerosol “dry haze” that settled onto the ice to form a layer of grayish dust containing metallic particles. The haze and dust were likely the byproducts of smelting and coal combustion generated during the Industrial Revolution.…”
And, of course (coincidentally?), on one of my mailing lists, the current hot topic of discussion revolves around Banning Jerusalem, industrialization, and dark Satanic mills.
Guy’s other mentioned site, Alltop, is a spare-looking, but not sparse, compendium of stuff about stuff.
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