The most famous pillow book of the 20th century is getting revised
Here’s a great article (link below) on the book “The Joy of Sex,” which is getting updated for the 21st century (and women). It’s really...
Author: charlie
Do media endorsements of candidates mean anything
I’ve been watching Obama rack up the endorsements. But, a quick check of the last presidential election shows that Kerry far outstripped Bush in getting e...
Political and economic turmoil driving info-obsession
Ok. But, are we just passive? Has there been an uptick in activism as well? Link: Too Much News? – NYTimes.com And the news is not just consequential, but...
The ‘Quiet’ post
Every so often a site has the ‘oh, sorry for being so quiet’ post. This is sort-of one of them. Stream of bookmark consciousness I used to have the ...
links for 2008-08-11 [delicious.com]
Stranger than fiction – The Boston Globe "If we didn't have Clark Rockefeller, we'd have to make him up. Actually, Christian Karl Gerhartsr...
links for 2008-08-07 [delicious.com]
Times Higher Education – All the privileged must have prizes (tags: boston cambridge harvard university teaching education school society culture money co...
links for 2008-08-06 [delicious.com]
MobileMe Problems Show Apple Needs an Infrastructure Lesson – GigaOM (tags: apple mobileme internet service) When Google Owns You | chrisbrogan.com So muc...
Tracing paths in woods nearby
I’ve moved to a new neighborhood and there’s a forest nearby. Today, to get a better idea of all the trails, the dog and I wandered every trail we c...
Swimming the sea of knowledge (the Concept Web?)
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to find, navigate, recombine, and contribute to … what’s out there, though mostly focused ...
The Electric Knife Syndrome
I’m at the Mobile 2.0 conference in Barcelona. I was talking with Mark Kramer, and Bryan and Stepanie Rieger about the things we usually talk about. I had...