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1660 Diary Becomes 2003 Weblog
EnlightenmentFan writes "When technology improves a book that was already good, that's good news for nerds. I'm not talking about the Two Towers, but the diary of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) (pronounced Peeps, as in marshmallow peeps), whose diaries record not only the Great Fire of London and the plague but his many seductions, trickeries, encounters with the king, almost getting executed, etc. Brit blogger Phil Gyford realized that this diary would make a great weblog--clickable footnotes, online feedback and all. So now he is serializing it daily, starting Jan 2, 1660, supposedly over the next ten years. The BBC has the backstory. I hope Gyford will deviate from Gutenberg's 1893 version to include some of Pepys's more outrageous sexual adventures, reduced by the 1893 version to "....""
I don't get the "In Soviet Russia" references as it is :) I doubt they will!
Where the hell did that come from, anyway?
_please_ tell me your not 16 or younger...PLEASE!
Soviet Russia refers to the old USSR, the great bastion of communism in the world prior to it's collapse *gags* 10ish years ago (has it -really- been that long already?!??!)
It used to be that it was a -very- big deal for a Western (ie. US or British) person to get into to Moscow, let alone the rest of the country...
Lord...the children forget...
Where the hell did that come from, anyway?
A Beowulf cluster of... you guessed it... bases belonged by us!
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
I have receintly come to ponder upon the fact that the USSR was a government founded and operated by artists and poets.
After musing over the fact that many Americans hang on every well balanced bit of political prose from Hollywood.
I have decided that the sense of asthetics must be contary to the sense of justice.
- High Tech workers, please say NO to Union Carpenters, their Union sees fit to control our compensation.