Old Navy is currently running ads with Anjani’s “Blue Alert” as backdrop. They have now ruined the best song on her latest album. To hear it the way it was meant to be heard, visit her blog with your speakers turned on.
The song lyrics are a poem written by Leonard Cohen. It is pure poetry, […]
I’m going through my pile of finished books to review those worth recommending. Both of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s books, “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” and ”Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets” are highly recommended.
Nassim Nicodemus Taleb is a man “in whom is no guile”. […]
Purveyor of beauty Khoi Vinh laments the deteriorating state of his handwriting.
I’ve noticed the same with my handwriting. He and his readers draw the conclusion that beautiful writing is a casualty of technology. I recently had a related insight, about technology’s impact on beauty in general.
Tim Sneath recently helped the British Library digitize some of […]