Later in this post you will discover a link to an article from a recent edition of The Art Newspaper that is just begging for someone like Dan Brown to come along and fictionalize the people, places, and events. It’s got everything (except technology): famous artists, Italian nobility, palaces, letters from Michelangelo, a member of [...]
Last week my son and I* visited a Cool New Place in Tel Aviv. It’s a restaurant called The Dining Hall (rough translation). It’s done up like a traditional kibbutz communal dining hall, but the food is urban gourmet. I was more than intrigued by the idea that the kibbutz is now so passe that [...]
Just because it might brighten your day: A 12-YEAR-OLD EXPLAINS THE INFORMATION AGE’S FACTS OF LIFE TO HER MOTHER (From the indispensibly wonderful McSweeneys.)
The Finnish Library Association is celebrating its 100th birthday. It’s got a great little clip on YouTube — spare, lean, clean and refreshing as Finnish design always seems to be — that just gets straight to the heart of the matter. Enjoy.
A nice little item from Techdirt quoting Francis Ford Coppola quoting Balzac — on quoting. Or copying, to be precise. I once found a little excerpt from Balzac. He speaks about a young writer who stole some of his prose. The thing that almost made me weep, he said, “I was so happy when this [...]
Researchers, scientists, and inventors are working overtime to provide us with products we never knew we needed. As you can see from this photograph there are stairs leading up to our front door. In the wintertime, because we live on the edge of the snowbelt, the snow quickly accumulates and the steps can prove treacherous [...]
For a few years, I’ve heard some rumblings and complaints from various quarters about feeling excluded from technology groups, digital humanities groups, and other like-minded organizations. And in the past couple of days, the topic has come up again, in a number of different discussions. It has gotten me thinking a lot about siloed outreach [...]
I’ve got a little list of things I’m happy about in 2011 and right up there towards the top, under a few personal items, is the presence of AAM’s Media & Technology Committee on facebook. If you haven’t friended M&T yet then you are missing a relevant source of information on what’s new and interesting [...]
In case you missed it, something requiring a British SOH: And the link is here
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