I’ve been interested recently in ways the web can be used to annotate texts. Pepysdiary.com takes a simple and elegant approach to the famous diary of Samuel Pepys. Even with the dissapointing outcome of the recent copyright extension debate, there are many etexts out there but most are in ASCII or are webified by well-intentioned people with little understanding of design. It’s refreshing when I run across one as well done as this. I’ll post others as I find them. Seems like this would be a good type of side-project for anyone who loves literature and the web.
(Gyford.com the pepysdiary.com author’s personal site, is also worth a look, as is his Byliner app–especially the charts section–which lead me to this and this).
I happened to glance through the obituaries as I was reading the paper this morning and was saddened to learn that the kid who sold me a Dr. Pepper at the gas station earlier this week died in a car crash last night. I didn’t know him. Seemed like a nice kid. Only 19 years old. Ran his truck off the road driving a little too fast on wet pavement. That’s just not fair.