Dear ~club:
I don't have any sense of how much you all participated in last week's workshop, since I couldn't think of a neat little command to run to scan /home/ for wikis. As far as I can tell, there wasn't much interest, so perhaps I'll try to a different sort of prompt this week.
Do you remember MySpace? Me neither. I happen to be young enough to have more or less missed the rise of MySpace and instead been tempted by somewhat early Facebook circa 2007. (That's another story.)
Based on echos in preserved popular culture from the period and other forms of archaeology, I have concluded that there was once a way for MySpace users to define an in-group on their page known as the Top 8. Apparently, the decisions surrounding who was in a person's Top 8 and who wasn't were serious ones with long-lasting social consequences, at least for some. Of course, this is a ridiculous idea to us evolved humans of the almost 2020s. We would never be dragged down into arguments with strangers on the Internet over essentially meaningless tribal drivel, right? ...right?
~club, your task this week is to recreate MySpace's Top 8 somewhere on your own set of pages. Just one catch: no people. To try to avoid recreating the apparent angst that comes with publicly defining in-groups and out-groups, let's pick instead from the vast selection of topics, languages (natural and artificial), technologies, forms and genres of music, and other inanimate stuff of interest. This way, we might avoid the toxicity and end up sharing our interests with each other instead.
Have fun, ~club, and I'm sorry this one was a little late.
Bradley