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I had an idea last night.
As everyone knows, we are fast approaching the first anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Everyone is discussing how the best memorialize the event, and the people lost. Here's my two cents.
A day of silence on the Internet. For one calendar day, starting at 0001 11 SEP 02, your local time, stop posting, emailing, surfing whatever. A global day of silence moving around the world. I realize that this would be impossible for those in business who rely on the net, but I think it would be a powerful statement. I remember on that day the messages on the Traveller Mailing List to our NYC members asking "are you ok?" And I know the terrible silence when one person never replies to those calls.
So for one day, stay off the net. It will survive. talk on the phone, go for a walk, or just remember how much we all lost on the terrible day, one year ago.
A day of silence on the Internet. For one calendar day, starting at 0001 11 SEP 02, your local time, stop posting, emailing, surfing whatever. A global day of silence moving around the world. I realize that this would be impossible for those in business who rely on the net, but I think it would be a powerful statement. I remember on that day the messages on the Traveller Mailing List to our NYC members asking "are you ok?" And I know the terrible silence when one person never replies to those calls.
So for one day, stay off the net. It will survive. talk on the phone, go for a walk, or just remember how much we all lost on the terrible day, one year ago.
Nothing bad should ever happen on anyone's birthday.
Does anyone remember the day when the Chinese army ran over protesting students with tanks? I do. That was my birthday.
It's horrible when some disaster or act of war can make people blank out at the nice things in life, like birthdays and anniversaries and weddings and graduations and holidays that are there for the happiness of it.
Unfortunately, with the confusion over what to call the incident at first (accident, act of war, act of terrorism, bloody major fuckup) and the initial confusion over whodunit and why (no one was exactly waving flags), I think that the date has stuck in people's minds as the name of the event.
Re: Nothing bad should ever happen on anyone's birthday.