Here’s the headline, folks: “A Goya Downgraded.” Here’s a link to the story in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/arts/28arts-AGOYADOWNGRA_BRF.html?ref=arts Here’s WHY it’s important. The Prado, an internationally known museum, has stepped up to the plate and said “we’ve used science and new technologies and want you to a know that a painting we’ve marketed as by [...]
On Thursday, we kicked off the 2008-2009 MCN Membership campaign. In the past, we’re reported some basic statistics during the Business Meeeting at the conference, but I’ve always been curious about what lurked behind the tables and figures reported there. In the next few posts I’ll try visualizing some interesting features of MCN membership. For [...]
Posting on behalf of Herminia Din, who says she only has a few proposals so far for SPC endorsement. The theme for this year, The Museum Experiment” is almost tailor-made for us tech folks, so please send Herminia your ideas and proposals! Deadline for submitting a program proposal for AAM 2009 Philadelphia (April 30-May 4) [...]
I confess to gleeful dogmatism and a frequent difficult in seeing problems from new perspectives. Get my attention and I’m fine, but until you get me to actually, actively listen, I’m as liable to miss the point as the most stereotypical Fox News bombaster. In recent months, I have been exasperated by folks who insist [...]
[Warning: If you are fond of turkeys do not read any further, a turkey fights the law and the law wins in this one folks] I LOVE VACATION! The subject line of my blog is one of the headlines (beneath the fold) of the weekly journal of _______ where we are vacationing. [The blank is [...]
I’m on vacation so I get to catch up on reading that I don’t normally have time to do. Soooo, if any of you out there are interested in String Theory here are two links for you. The title of my blog is taken from an online article from last month’s Scientific American entitled “Does [...]
It’s time for a rant about Unicode. This, as some of us know (and nobody should have to know) is a way of encoding characters such that every character in every language in the world (and lots more, besides) has its own unique computer name, and thus, no matter what written languages I think my [...]
This has my vote for the cool thing of the week / month / current phase. The ancient and venerable art of bookshelf browsing happily comes around full circle, after having been knocked off the shelf (so to speak) by the monotonous precision of digital information “management:” “Launched to the public earlier this week, Zoomii [...]
Metanarrative: In critical theory, and particularly postmodernism, a metanarrative (sometimes master- or grand narrative) is an abstract idea that is supposed to be a comprehensive explanation of historical experience or knowledge. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_narrative) The contents of this post might also be entitled “Thoughts I’ve been having about where my life has been and where my life is going [...]
I won’t even begin to offer my view on this, but like Holly’s post, its in the genes… Men Write Code from Mars, Women Write More Helpful Code from Venus
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