At The Boat Lul­la­bies: Sight­ing

“A 19^th cen­tury cri­tique of a 21^st cen­tury pres­i­dent” in the LA Times:

“Even when you do a good thing,” Glad­stone observed, “you may do it in so bad a way that you may entirely spoil the ben­e­fi­cial effect.“

(Via Luker at Cliopa­tria.)

jill/​txt wins an aca­d­e­mic blog­ging award. Con­grat­u­la­tions!

Some inter­est­ing soci­o­log­i­cal notes on Wikipedia cul­ture:

For exam­ple:

A lot of Wikipedi­ans are par­tic­u­larly dis­mis­sive of blogs – ‘the ulti­mate van­ity press’ is one of the kinder descrip­tions I’ve seen. Sean Bon­ner sug­gests that the anti-​​blog fac­tion think blogs are just rumors about kit­tens and stuff. I blame Belle for this. More seri­ously, I sus­pect that there’s a clash between the col­lec­tivist ethos of Wikipedia, at least as regards the final prod­uct, and the more tra­di­tional autho­r­ial role of bloggers.

Boing Boing reports “US bans sale of chem­i­cals to hob­by­ists with­out $1K license”. Go visit United Nuclear’s web­site for more information.