Riffing

It shouldn't surprise you that I find this Winer-Svenson-Winer-Lessig-Winer exchange monumentally exciting. Or that Doc does.
--Later: See Andrew's alert observation.
--And later: more thoughts from Dave and Ernie.

Blawg Wednesday

Well hello Andrew Raff ("Shameless Self Promotion"), founding editor of online journal Buzz, Rant & Rave, first-year at Brooklyn Law School and keeper of a nicely designed Web site. And welcome back Larry Staton, Jr. ("statonBlog"), from your summer hiatus.

Two Treats Worth Waiting For

1. A web-based, refreshingly straightforward blog and news aggregator: BlogHog. (Thanks, Michael!) Nothing to download. Anywhere acess. Simple and quick to register and add pages. Ahhhhh.

2. Somone finally got around to interviewing Paynter, that someone being George Partington. The interview is here. "I had a college job in a huge library and was awed by the mathematical impossibility of ever absorbing its contents. The net is so much bigger, but linking gives us a way to fly through the information in a way that makes it all accessible. The daunting mathematics of a number of volumes with sequential pagination arranged in rows of shelving across multiple floors of the stacks has given way to an intellectual anti-gravity that makes me welcome the volume and complexity of published content." Ahhhhh.

Hip Haberdashery

Have you been paying attention to the renaissance in skullcap headwear? If not, fear not: dialed-in fashionistas and the U.S. Supreme Court studiously attend such sartorially significant developments. Howard has more now, with visual aids to follow.
--As promised.

(un)Natural Progressions

First there was Blog Meetup. Now it's RageBoy's First Annual All-Nude Mudblogging Invitational™. Ah my friends, can you not appreciate how these close encounters of the blog kind are fraught with mischief? Just how long will it be, I ask you, before legions of bloggers descend on your home with infernal door spam??