17:01:00 +07:00 France riots: Nanterre rocked by killing and unrest - One more french riots link to say I've felt somewhat self conscious of my use of rocket emojis next to personal links to blog posts, podcasts and newsletters, given how much the riots coverage has been banging on about the prevailing use of rockets by the protestors. The origin story of my rocket emojis is 100% linked to the idea of launching towards orbit, and nothing at all to do with weapons. That thought hadn't even crossed my mind. Honestly I never even thought about it much more than just oh-launching-rockets-into-the-sky-is-cool. When I got online I was really into Rocketboom, still one of the best videoblogs that ever was, which was zero about war, and everything to do with making things, and building online and real life communities. When I think of rockets, I think of Rocketboom, a world of possibilities. Anyway I'm probably being overly paranoid. In any case, I'm gonna keep launching rockets, the ones I use are strickly amazing non violent rockets. # www.bbc.com