Okay, my idea of cool is not quite the same as the idea expressed in the Eightfold Path. Well, at least not their first list of what they call cool.  They define cool as "new technology". They ask if the site contains video stuff like movies and video games, all the stuff the Sesame Street Generation needs to hold their attention span for longer than 90 seconds. Well, when you visit this site, leave the cyber popcorn and joystick at the desk top. This site doesn't play the top ten, won't talk to you and can't baby sit the hamster either. Fortunately, the path comes back to fold by then suggesting that the site could still be considered cool if it doesn't require the user to download a bizzilion plug ins to view it; most of the said plugs to sit gathering hyper cobwebs. I can proudly say that the Jefferson Blake site doesn't need any special techno kitchen appliances to view and can be fully enjoyed with a 28.8 (what ever that is).
    But now to the heart of the matter. the path humbly asks "Does the site really let you do anything useful?". What could be more useful than reading some of the most wonderful poetry ever written? What could be more fun than reflectively examining The Marriage of Heaven and Hell for thematic threads that not only reflect the movement of Romanticism but allow Blake to further explore his notion of contraries. While you won't be able to exercise your joystick hand or blast the remaining hearing right out of your ears, this site will let you exercise that often under used web tool, your mind. It just doesn't get any cooler than this.

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