[Buddha-l] "Western Self, Asian Other"

[JKirkpatrick]

Yikes (is that still allowed?)---
I retract my call for HTML. The prospects are indeed daunting.
Joanna 

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[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Richard
Hayes
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 11:27 PM
To: Buddhist discussion forum
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] "Western Self, Asian Other"

On Jan 3, 2010, at 11:21 AM, R B Basham wrote:

> On HTML, black symbols of uniform size on white background are 
> directly functional. Infinite choices as to size, color, font,
and 
> images detract from content, regardless of how flattering,
powerful, 
> all sorts of 'desirables' for the composer.

Holy Java script, Batman! I forgot all about the grim prospects
of messages coming in written on flowered "stationery" with text
in Apple Marker Felt font set at 18 point in the color mauve. And
some would not be able to resist dynamic emoticons that wink,
blink, blush, eat, sleep, drink and wet. The technological age
has provided us with alternatives to good prose and sound
argumentation so numerous as to defy reckoning, and while I trust
most buddha-l denizens to have the discipline to refrain from
such aesthetic monstrosities as those you mention, there may be
some who would assault and batter the rest of us with their
eye-candy canes.