The Inukitut have a word for it: “puijilittatuq.” Translation: “He does not know which way to turn because of the many seals he has seen come to the ice surface.”
That’s a good description (from this month’s issue of Ansible, the scifi newsletter from David Langford) of the blog-blockage typically caused by a fresh copy of Ansible.
Thank goodness, at least, that I’m not in Paris! Bloggers there will face the nightly temptation of being able to play mobile-phone-Tetris, using the lights on the Bibliotheque Nationale. (Thanks, Engadget!)
And check out Anil Dash’s piece on “Information Bankruptcy.” My favorite bit:
I learned that half of all bankruptcies in the United States are caused by medical bills, courtesy of Rebecca’s link. I wish I had learned this from John Kerry about six months ago. This is the core of the health care debate in this country, not edge-case stem cell research. Modern political organizations have fantastic research resources available to them, but they squander these resources on finding weaknesses in their opponents…
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And I linked to Jay McCarthy’s beautiful “Letter to Beatrice” from my del.icio.us linkblog, but never got around to pointing to it from here. Tiny sample:
In these paragraphs I will take Aristotle’s classification, if for no other reason then to impress those who are so impressed, on friends: those of interest, of love, and of contemplation. This division is not always perfect, and thus many components could easily be rearranged, but how many books are in the Bible is much less important than their complete message–so I press onward…
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Now, you’ve got plenty to read, and I’m headed back to Thog’s Masterclass…