A couple of years ago, much derision met the movie studios’ choice of the name “Hulu” for their video portal, which has since become one of the top sites on the Internet.
At that time, I immediately defended the name Hulu, calling it a “great name”, based on it’s close auditory association with the candy known [...]
I am reading about Arthur Machen, who was apparently an influence on Yeats, Pierce, and Lovecraft, and a friend of A. E. Waite.
His philosophy and approach reminded me a lot of Barfield, but I couldn’t find an explicit link.
Here is an excerpt from a review of his book Hieroglyphics, describing his theory of “ecstasy”:
"Hieroglyphics" [...]
Today my old colleague, Cliff Schmidt, came to Microsoft Research to talk about his current role as director of the Talking Book project. He recently returned from Ghana, where they have been field-testing the first version of their hardware, which allows rural villagers to share audio versions of educational materials about health, agricultural techniques, and [...]