The New York Times reports that the House has blocked a provision of the Patriot Act making it easier for government officials to search what books people buy or read at the library. This has come after about a year of protest by many groups, […]
I didn’t intend this site to be the constant bearer of bad news as it relates to reading, but I can’t help report what I find. We all know the trends. According to a released this week by the Book Industry Study Group, the […]
Brian Eno on culture: "Culture is everything we don’t have to do. Eating is necessary, but cuisine is culture. Clothes must be worn, but couture is culture. Haircuts and Shakespeare and early Saxon burial poetry all pose some kind of unnecessary order, he said, that […]
Here is a fascinating story from the Independent. In the past few days, significant discoveries could change the way that we view the world. Scholars have found lost works by the literary giants of Greece and Rome. "Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to […]
On April 26, Bruce Springsteen will release his new CD Devils & Dust. According to reports, it will be a Dual Disc, with the CD content one one side of the disc, and live concert footage on the DVD content on the other side. Here […]
I realize that I have been out of action here for some time. Wow, in fact I just realized that I only posted twice during the entire month of February. Not good. This month marks the one year anniversary for my blog, and I hope […]
“Although Plato compared the human soul to a chariot pulled by the two horses of reason and emotion, modern economics has mostly been a one-horse show,” says a recent article in the Economist. “It has been obsessed with reason.” Yet, new research is showing that […]
In honor of yesterday’s inauguration, I thought I would put a link to the new Jib Jab video. You might remember the cartoon video they made during the campaign, to the tune of “This Land is Your Land.” The new one is just as funny; […]
We are entering the age of personalization of technology, and according to this article its ramifications on our culture are yet to actualize. “The remote control shifted power to the individual, and the technologies that have embraced this principle in its wake—the Walkman, the Video […]
I realize that I have been a bit MIA lately. With work and the holidays, I have had little time to post. Part of my New Year’s resolution is to get better about that, as well as to stick to my reading list. I want […]