Comments for Breaching The Web

Comment on A nation of illegal immigrants by Katxena

Katxena — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:10:16 +0000

Thanks — that’s interesting!

Comment on A nation of illegal immigrants by Allen MacKenzie

Allen MacKenzie — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:45:42 +0000

Not directly related to immigration per se, but you might be interested in this modern-day squatter story:

http://www.dallasobserver.com/content/printVersion/2365078/

Comment on Playlist of my life by Katxena

Katxena — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:08:12 +0000

This project is unbelievably difficult. The hardest years for me were 1979 to 1983. That probably says something terrible about my character. I’m trying hard to focus on stories, which helps add focus to this project. But it is really challenging.

Comment on Playlist of my life by Steve B.

Steve B. — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:45:38 +0000

I love this idea. Very ambitious.

I would find this really hard, I think, because of the ‘too many options’ problem. Some of my favorite music in the world came out between 1973 and 1979 (Genesis, Yes, Elvis Costello..), and there is a great deal of it. Plus of course there’s all the other popular music from those years too.

Using some of my touchstones in the years when I was really digging them instead might be the way around that. But then I’d be foregoing all the awesome other songs from that year. And so forth.

I would be tempted to cheat for many of the years and branch out the choices, e.g. have a ‘1989 jazz song’ and a ‘1989 pop song’ and a…

Discipline is hard; I resist it.

Comment on Playlist of my life: 1971 by Eric

Eric — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:32:14 +0000

Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea, joy to you and me!

(1971 was a very good year indeed.)

Comment on Playlist of my life by Katxena

Katxena — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:08:24 +0000

I hope it’s fun! I’m staring at my 1972 pick right now, and I’m already starting to regret this project.

Comment on Playlist of my life by Glen Engel-Cox

Glen Engel-Cox — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:35:27 +0000

Oooo, this will be fun to read! Great idea.

Comment on Christmas Music by genehack

genehack — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:40:18 +0000

I’m glad you’re enjoying the album (and continued apologies to the husband… 8^> )

Comment on Meaty content by Katxena

Katxena — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:45:17 +0000

Longform looks really good. I’m off to explore longreads. Thanks for the pointers.

Comment on Meaty content by Allen MacKenzie

Allen MacKenzie — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:49:09 +0000

Two more for you:

* longform.org - Also curated, like Give Me Something to Read, but the editors have a bias that may or may not appeal to you. (They have written thoughtfully about their biases somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it now.)

* longreads.com - I don’t tend to follow this one as closely, as my Instapaper queue seems to always be plenty long. But occasionally I go here and find good stuff.

Both have Twitter accounts (@longformorg and @longreads), too.