Monthly Archives: October 2003

Requirements for a perfect weblog tool

Posted on 10.10.2003 by Stephanie Booth

Cahier des charges en français. The French list is much more complete than this one. Creation, modification, and deletion of posts. More than one author per weblog. Allow posts from certain authors to be approved by others before publication. More … Continue reading →

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Common Weblog Format

Posted on 10.10.2003 by Stephanie Booth

I haven’t had a chance to say it before, even though this has been around for quite some time: I’d love to see a common weblog format. Now I’m thinking about the features I would like to see in a … Continue reading →

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Dans les oreilles

Posted on 05.10.2003 by Stephanie Booth

Tu vois si on se raconte tous notre vie C’est qu’on croit que c’est pas la même que celle des autres On se réveille un jour et on se dit qu’on court tous vers la même histoire Qu’on court tous … Continue reading →

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My Bookmarks

Posted on 05.10.2003 by Stephanie Booth

Old bookmarks, new bookmarks. Thanks to Nacara who wrote the script. Which brings the number of links on the left of this page to a frightening twenty, if you take into account the two external ones. It is way to … Continue reading →

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Minorités sur le web?

Posted on 05.10.2003 by Stephanie Booth

Pour ceux qui pensent qu’il suffit de coder pour IE, et qu’avoir des égards encore de nos jours pour les rares pelés qui surfent encore avec un modem 56K… les chiffres parlent chez Sam: fin 2002 il y avait 1,3 … Continue reading →

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Têtes de blogueurs

Posted on 04.10.2003 by Stephanie Booth

Photo à l’appui, Mr F. nous demandait il y a quelques jours: “les blogueurs sont-ils des gens normaux?”. Dans la même lignée “tronches”, mais peut-être moins “musée des horreurs”, l’helvète underground nous propose “têtes de blogueurs”. Allez y ajouter la … Continue reading →

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Pompage d’octobre

Posted on 04.10.2003 by Stephanie Booth

En ce mois grisouillant d’octobre, Pompage.net vous offre Les coulisses d’un design: une explication détaillée du processus et des décisions prises pour monter un des designs du Jardin Zen CSS, Golden Mean. Le moment de découvrir CSS Zen Garden si … Continue reading →

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Touchée

Posted on 03.10.2003 by Stephanie Booth

C’était il y a un instant ou il y a quelques jours. J’ai été touchée. Par Anne Archet: À bientôt L’helvète underground: Face the strange Fleur: Mon Père, ce héros ordinaire (pas de permaliens, cherchez…) Dehors, on dirait l’hiver. Similar … Continue reading →

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Remembering that James Buchanan was homosexual complexifies our national narrative, to be sure, but it is a complexity that we need. It prompts us to remember that terrible era, the nadir, when we all moved backward, not just the South. Not just organized baseball but also the Kentucky Derby, the NFL and even previously “black” jobs like railroad foremen got redefined “white only.” Communities across the North became sundown towns, barring African-Americans formally or informally. Even North Dakota outlawed interracial marriage.

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All that said, President Obama’s change of heart about gay marriage remains significant. It does show increasing tolerance compared to our recent past. During the nadir of race relations, that terrible period between 1890 and about 1940 when white America went more racist in its thinking than at any other time, the U.S. also clamped down on beards, liquor (briefly) and, yes, homosexuals. As Jackie Robinson was not the first black player in Major League Baseball, but rather the first after the nadir, so President Obama is not our “first gay” president (Forgive me: I cannot seem to retype Newsweek’s silly headline without putting quotation marks around the words), but only our “first” since the nadir.

If this example seems too religious, consider the huge secular company Walt Disney Enterprises. The last time I visited Disney World, it still banned facial hair, although it quietly made exceptions for African-Americans with well-trimmed beards or mustaches.

In themselves, beards may not be signs of progress, although mine has subtly improved my thinking. Nevertheless, we reached an arresting state of intolerance when the Disney organization, founded by a man with a mustache, would not allow one even on a janitor. Moreover, before we trivialize these examples by thinking they apply only to facial hair, consider that Lincoln was also our last president who was not a member of a Christian denomination when taking office. Could a non-Christian like Jefferson or Lincoln be president today? It’s not clear.

Wednesday 16:43

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Wednesday 15:55

More About Hearing Aids (And Geeking Out a Bit)

Wednesday 14:08

There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.

Wednesday 13:58

Bookmarked a link: Our real first gay president - American History - Salon.com

Wednesday 14:06

To think even for a moment about aspects of personal presentation other than sexual orientation forces us to realize that we today are not necessarily more tolerant. Consider facial hair. In 1864, with a beard, Abraham Lincoln won reelection. Could that happen nowadays? Is it mere chance that no candidate with facial hair has won the presidency since William Howard Taft — and he wore only a mustache? Indeed, since Thomas Dewey in 1948 no major party candidate with facial hair has even run for president, and Dewey wore only the smallest of mustaches.

Wednesday 14:55

Bookmarked a link: Facebook

Wednesday 14:12

The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly.

I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.

Despite such evidence, one reason why Americans find it hard to believe Buchanan could have been gay is that we have a touching belief in progress. Our high school history textbooks’ overall story line is, “We started out great and have been getting better ever since,” more or less automatically. Thus we must be more tolerant now than we were way back in the middle of the 19th century! Buchanan could not have been gay then, else we would not seem more tolerant now.

This ideology of progress amounts to a chronological form of ethnocentrism. Thus chronological ethnocentrism is the belief that we now live in a better society, compared to past societies. Of course, ethnocentrism is the anthropological term for the attitude that our society is better than any other society now existing, and theirs are OK to the degree that they are like ours.

Wednesday 13:57

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Wednesday 14:12

Our real first gay president - American History http://t.co/R3hkxic1 > fascinating! /v @zephoria

Wednesday 14:06

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Wednesday 14:00

Bookmarked a link: MACGREGOR 26 HOME PAGE

Wednesday 11:36

know anybody who might be interested in buying a MacGregor 26x? http://t.co/k5xAXCA2 (2001) LMK

Wednesday 11:36

Bookmarked 2 links

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@_charliemoseley Sunny in Spain, indeed! "pretty warm", even http://t.co/l50UCFEq

Wednesday 9:32

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Wednesday 9:31

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