broken crayon

As I've said before, "BlackCrayon.com is a bit of a ghost town. I'm sorry about that. ... So the bookstore (2 , 3, 4) is broken and some of my library is still hacked. The pipes are leaking and there's the general dank smell of disuse."

I don't have the time or inclination to maintain it, and I don't have the heart to take it down. And apparently, some people still use it as a resource. This year's Broken Crayon Award goes to Jason R. Gray, who wrote me over the weekend to say:

I'm a frequent visitor to your Black Crayon web site and I've recently noticed something weird about it. Some of its hyperlinks direct me to inaccessible web sites. Others direct me to web pages that are totally different from what is described. I appreciate what you're doing for anarcho-capitalism, individualist anarchism, mutualism, etc. Below are a few that I've noticed. Hopefully this e-mail will help you out in furthering your endeavour and expressing your message effectively.

1. On your [A] Brief Introduction to Philosophical Anarchism web page, there is an asterisk hyperlink after the words "George Washington, first president of the United States" that directs me to a vandalised web page of some sort.
2. On some of your People web pages (e.g. William Godwin, Emma Goldman, Joseph Labadie, Leo Tolstoy), there are hyperlinks that direct me to web pages on your server with hyperlinks to music on Amazon.com instead of books or what have you.
3. On your Murray N. Rothbard web page, the hyperlink for his "Government in Business" article is inaccessible at its present location and currently here: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=252.
4. On your Murray Bookchin web page, the hyperlink for his biography is inaccessible and currently here: http://www.social-ecology.org/article.php?story=20060802164601491. The hyperlink for "The Murray Bookchin Reader" is also inaccessible and currently here: http://www.social-ecology.org/article.php?story=20031118091735782.

With regards,
Jason

Thanks so much, Jason. I thought I'd dug out all the vandalized pages, but apparently not. The Amazon links were broken because Amazon changed its web services protocols after I'd stopped programming. Rather than fix them, I've removed the ones you pointed out. Where you've offered updated URLs, I've fixed the broken links. For a little more on Murray Bookchin (and Murray Rothbard), see my old blog post on "liberal anarchism".