A big “thank you” to whichever reader recommended I read “De La Mettrie’s Ghost”! The recommendation was made in comments to another post 2 years ago, and I only recently got around to reading it. In fact, I got annoyed with it at first, and put it down to finish a couple of other books. […]
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 […]
AUX 88’s song Electric Light, (from Xeo-Genetic) is one of my favorite electro techno songs. The intro starts with:
“Momma told me there would be light at the end of the tunnel. But she never told me it would be …”
Then the chorus, “if you can see, what I can see, then you will come with […]
Dawkins and Collins, two preeminent geneticists, are arguing God vs. Science. I think Collins makes some flying leaps and panders slightly, but Dawkins is out of control. He’s close to understanding the entire universe in his own mind. I have a little parable from his own field of study to instruct those who care about […]
What do the following three recent phenomena have in common?
Scoble lamenting the fact that it’s getting harder and harder for wannabe 2.0 stars to get noticed.
Rose and Calcanis skirmishing over whether the taste-makers at Digg/Netscape should get paid in filthy lucre.
NYT breathlessly reporting yet another centralized gambit to take over taste-making.
All three of them are […]