Author: James McNally

From The Vaults: Got Blog?

In January 2001, I wrote an article for online magazine About This Particular Macintosh about the burgeoning popularity of “blogs” and now more than five years later, it’s sort of quaint to look at it again. I thought you might think so, too.

March 25: Seems like someone else is getting nostalgic as well. Michael Stillwell of beebo.org posts the list of the most-linked blogs from September 2000. Fascinating. And looking at the text file of the 446 blogs he was working with, probably a large percentage of the existing blogs at the time, brought back good memories of some people who’ve seemingly disappeared from the web.

Gays Versus Muslims

The Institute of Multicultural Development, a Dutch multicultural group is arranging a soccer match between Muslims and homosexuals. In an effort to combat fears and misconceptions, the two sides will meet on the pitch, and hopefully in the process, come to see each other as human beings.

While I applaud this effort, it does seem a bit strange to bring people together over a competitive sporting activity. For years, I’ve had the idea of bringing some of my fundamentalist Christian friends together with some gay friends (my smart-ass title for the events: Fags and Fundies), but at least over a meal, people have time to talk and there are no winners or losers.

Still, I suppose anything that can bring two groups of misunderstood and misunderstanding people together is a good thing.

P.S. The funniest thing in the Beliefnet story was the organizer’s assurance that gay Muslims can choose either team!