Via Ed Chang in my graduate class this semester comes Psymon, a whimsical but informative look at this history of printing which announces itself as follows:
World Wide Web pages bound by hand using traditional methods as passed down from generation to generation by the old masters. Only the finest materials are chosen by our shop to ensure that our publications will stand the test of time, and we still take care to sew, glue and bind all of our scrupulously selected codes and scripts by hand, thereby ensuring that our sites receive nothing but the most personal, intimate attention, all reflected in the quality of our workmanship, with each endeavour being a truly unique creation to be displayed with pride in any library or forum.
Actually, when I first glanced at this language, I thought Psymon was a service for taking actual Web pages, printing them on fine paper, and then making hand-bound codex volumes out of them. Which leads me to ask, why isn’t there anyone out there doing that? Or it wouldn’t surprise me if in fact there was. For the netizen who has everything: his or her Web pages in a leather-bound volume suitable for reading in the proverbial bathtub.
Posted by mgk at February 8, 2004 09:11 PMThey're just offering a PDF right now, but that "how do I get a real book?" question is probably not there randomly. Somewhere, among the mewlers and pukers of Livejournal, there are those who think there's a greater worth to having their "fake hugs plz" recorded in print.