This morning I heard a report on BBC World View that a 1600-year-old version of the Old Testament, the Codex Sinaiticus, has been digitized and placed online by the British Library.
For all the gee-whiz flash and flashy horseshit of the web, there's a simple message here. If your content is good, you don't need a helluva lot of glitz to present it. There was nothing really wrong with the UI of a book. It's worked for a few thousand years and may last for at least a couple dozen more.
http://ttpdownload.bl.uk/app_files/xbap/BrowserApp.xbap?id=B00F9A37-422C-4542-BFBD-B97BF3CE7D50&spread=0
The link above downloads an app from Microsoft, so it takes a few seconds. Give it the time it needs. You'll find it's worth it.
what the ...., it's old man, how can that be up to date? Can't they come up with a new old testament? Something more hip, like engaging a couple of 23 year olds to write new stories. Also. More interactive, so we can choose how the world ends or starts and who gets to kill whom etc. Everything has changed remember. Nothing is like it used to be. And besides, I've already read it a few times..okay maybe not the 1600 year old one...but close enough...
ReplyDeleteoh, by the way, I visit, not by choice, but by dyslexia and an inability to get my fingers to hit the right keys on the key board in the right order when trying to type in www.adaged.blogspot (I know there are other ways, but I do type it wrongly often enough i'm afraid) so a weird azt.com comes up just about every time i try to visit adaged. Mostly I by some weird mistake type in http://adaged.blogpsot.com/ and by that I'm landing at http://www.azt.com/ just about once a day. I'm probably their only visitor!? I never tried to read what's on the site. Being jewish I should perhaps be a bit curious as the main image is one of Jerusalem. I think. I leave before I really pay attention. And again, Madoff is also a jew, so I'm getting a bit jaded. Fuck.I'm convinced crooks like him fuels the wrong shit.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm sure hooks are just hooks. Why else would a perfectly sane salmon otherwise bite on something that would end him up on a plate in a small american suburb town, over-cooked, accompanied by a sour slice of lemon and a sprig of dill?
Of course I had to go look, plugged in azd.com by accident and redirected to geography.net.
ReplyDeleteThis typo redirect could go on for a while.
@jeaves: try http://www.adaged.blogpsot.com/
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