Sherry Turkle on “Alone Together” | To the best of our KNOWLEDGE.
She just mentioned a great point that with Facebook, a college student mentioned he couldn’t reinvent himself (my comment: and therefore also experiment and find things he didn’t like) when he arrived at college because his old friends came with him on fb.
Darin Gibby on Why America has stopped inventing | To the best of our KNOWLEDGE.
great interview regarding Why America has stopped inventing
Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine | To the best of our KNOWLEDGE.
OK piece on inventing and publicizing and acting on the invention. I like this and the next post of the 2nd interview from American Invention on ttbook.org.
The Last Quiet Places with Gordon Hempton [On Being].
That seems reasonable for why New York City is the way it is, why the Communications Room of the American Red Cross in St. Louis, Missouri is the way it is, etc.
Errol Morris: “Believing Is Seeing” | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR.
Just heard on NPR. Thought provoking. Different perspective on certain well-known photos. Never heard of the guy before, nor the book, but the part of the interview I heard was a good reminder to not take everything you see at face value.
Today I saw a rainbow in St. Louis, Missouri. Before the Clean Air Act apparatus was in place in St. Louis (with it’s associated problems (especially for low-income individuals)), I had *never* seen one in St. Louis. It isn’t perfect, but is any law perfect? Is any implementation?
What do disaster health and welfare traffic, video conferencing, and [something else I missed] have in common? They are all becoming browser based (or app based if on a mobile device).
We’re leaving platform and Java™ behind in favor of browser based “applications”.
