Big [en]
Gnosticisme [en]
Dans la même lancée, voici un séminaire que j’ai écrit sur le gnosticisme, un courant de la religion chrétienne datant des alentours du deuxième siècle, et qui a joué un rôle fondamental dans la constitution de l’identité chrétienne.
A noter que j’ai converti le document Word d’origine avec W2CSS.
Disclaimer [en]
Word to CSS [en]
OK, I know it’s not new, but I’ve just tried it. Well I’ll be begaddled! The code is clean and usable. The output page looks just like the original document. There will only be minimal work to do to adapt the document to my site’s stylesheet…
If you haven’t already done so, please go and check out W2CSS straight away!
// review
Fun! [en]
We knew fusion had editors. Now grimm has too!
Introducing yours truly, grimm editor.
This is how it works. I write the beginning of a story, send it to somebody, who writes the next bit and sends it back. Then I take the last snippet of the story, and send it to somebody else. Ten people total.
Then we stick the story together, and publish at waferbaby.
Important! If you register at waferbaby, you go into daniel’s pool of people, not mine. Daniel is like my “boss” for this thing, and I have to find my own “players”.
So if you like writing, just come on and join the fun by sending me an email!
Compte-rendu de séminaire [en]
Pour ceux que ça intéresse (on peut toujours rêver!), voici le compte-rendu de mon séminaire sur le cosmos chez Maeterlinck.
Bonne lecture…
Tangerine [en]
[no comment on number of posts today]
I’m pleased to tell you that Tangerine Girl is writing again. Her long absence had actually managed to get me worrying…
A Rape in Cyberspace [en]
I’ve just finished reading My Tiny Life: A Rape in Cyberspace. It is long (it’s actually the first chapter of a print-book), well-written, and it is very interesting.
Julian recounts a case of “virtual rape” involving characters in an online community. It shows how much impact “online events” have on the real people behind the keyboards. It also shows an anarchic community struggling to get organized for dealing with the rapist.
In my online life, I have been faced by people who look upon online interaction as an “experiment” – who don’t care about their fellow chatters because they are “not real”. I think this text shows just how wrong these people are.
As an aside, I’m developing another pet peeve: haikus. Don’t get me wrong, I love japanese haikus. But this trend of sticking haikus everywhere on websites is so… “web”. I mean, short attention span and all that.
It’s a bit “easy”.
Critical Mass [en]
I often notice what I have come to call the “critical mass” syndrome. When a service or community becomes too popular, its quality comes down.
I may be pessimistic, but I see no way out of this.