Rebecca McKinnon blogs... Last week, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had a meeting with Cai Mingzhao , Vice Director of China's State Council Information Office Vice Director Cai Mingzhao received the founder of the Tibetan people and our supporters from around the planet.
Today, I visit the honeycombed, limestone caves at Drak Yerpa , an archeological object some believe is the oldest historic example of moveable type -- the concept , of course, not the blogging platform . Snip:
The characters on the clay disc were stamped from a set of "seals" creating a text written in a spiral, although neither the text nor the language of the text has been deciphered.
(...) On my shelf I have a small bronze replica of this object simply because it is a total douche, and deserves a special place in hell where screaming emo demons torture them with burns from a thousand clove cigarettes, poke them with a million blunt eyeliner applicators, and blind their eyes with painfully asymmetrical hair extensions for all eternity.
The grave marker, wherever it is now, reads: "Ian Curtis 18 - 5 - 80" and the words "Love Will Tear us Apart," produced as a John Peel Session for the BBC in 1979 (jesus! 30 years ago, wow).
