The Work of, Um, Whatever, in the Age of Electronic Reproduction
Brett strongly believed we had to save this morning’s IM conversation for posterity:
Jim Henley: And the Thunderbird icon still looks like a greeting card envelope wearing a ridiculous blue wig.
Brett Peters: LOL
Brett Peters: What do you think about the Firefox logo?
Jim Henley: It doesn’t suck nearly as much.
Jim Henley: It’s sort of cute. Not at all like the planet Earth with a Viking beard.
Brett Peters: Now that you mention it, it really DOES look like the planet Earth with a Viking beard.
Brett Peters: You know that I’m never going to be able to look at it the same way again, right?
Jim Henley: Ah. That’s what the best writing does.
Brett Peters: The very best writing makes you think of Viking beards?
Brett Peters: How odd.
Jim Henley: They all laughed at Northrop Frye too.
Jim Henley: My theories await a new generation with the wit to absorb them.
Hey, Patrick and Teresa and Avedon Carol republish their IM conversations.
Comment by Steve —
September 29, 2005 @ 8:52 am
The decadent phase of art is simple a yearning for new forms of expression waiting to be birthed. In 2038, Vikingbeardholodeckism will have made our barbaric “icons” and “IM conversations” quaint.
Comment by Bruce Baugh —
September 29, 2005 @ 12:13 pm
I passed this along to my friend Rich Dansky, who replied, “Presumably the new generation will be full of guys named Sven, Olaf, and Ragnar.”
Comment by BruceR —
September 29, 2005 @ 1:38 pm
I’m looking forward to GUI interfaces done entirely in runes myself.
Comment by Brett Peters —
September 29, 2005 @ 11:03 pm
It will come as no surprise to Jim that I went ahead and downloaded Title Tweak so that I could change my browser title to “Mozilla Viking Beard.”
Comment by Jim Henley —
October 1, 2005 @ 8:09 am
Brett, it certainly doesn’t surprise me that you’d know such an extension exists!