Rich irony goodness

[trochee]

I've already put this on my del.icio.us links, but the more I read the better it gets.


What's not to like about a 1960's comic describing Communism: Threat to Liberty?
(via the inimitable Mark Frauenfelder at bOINGbOING)
A postscript: if you use del.icio.us and I don't already know about it, please let me know! And if you don't use del.icio.us, why not?

Comments

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

It seems cool. I don't quite get how it works . I want to know about it !!!!

del.icio.us evangelism

[trochee.livejournal.com]

Their about page is helpful. It's basically a way to have a web site keep your bookmarks (handy if you use multiple computers, as I know you do!), but it has a number of additional characteristics that make it really interesting:
* you don't put bookmarks into folders, you assign classification labels (we talked over coffee the other day about how hierarchies are not useful ontological descriptions, remember?) and, like gmail, you can assign more than one label to a given link. (Here's my freakshow items, and my funny items, and you may note that they overlap!)
* because your bookmarks are public, you can share them with other people (like I do above) and they're accessible to web-based visualization tools
* web-based bookmarks can be tracked by other people (for example, several_bees' bookmarks are here.
* it's free. I bet the username "imtboo" is open.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I have a book from the same era called What We Must Know About Communism, but the comic is better.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

yow, it's like a political version of a Chick tract.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

haha, yes, that's exactly it. Except it's written by Catholics, who Chick, um, doesn't hate.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

http://del.icio.us/marnanel
you seem to have convinced me to look into it.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

yay! welcome to my world; I've dragged another one in!