Our Digital Reach Is a Benefit, Not a Threat
Posted on January 28, 2011
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We don’t normally write about computer-based technology, as such, because lots of other blogs do. We’ve left the digital dimension of technology to others, until now. That’s because a highly stimulating and very pertinent debate is raging on the nature of communication these days. Its essence: Is keyboard communication eclipsing, indeed blighting, human contact and relationships? Read more
Great Design: It’s Simple (But How Easily We Can Forget That)
Posted on January 23, 2011
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One of the great features of the Internet is the ability it provides to attend entire presentations – for which the attendees themselves paid travel, event and lodging fees – at your desk for free. Here’s one we especially value, just posted by Bill DeRouchey of Ziba Design. Read more
A (Computer) Manual for the Ages
Posted on January 13, 2011
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The New Yorker recently had an article on the Vatican Library and about how, among many other treasures, it houses a 1,461-year-old book (from 550 AD) by the Byzantine historian Procopius that contained a “devastating new portrait” of Justinian, the last great Roman emperor. Read more
Seeing Far Into the Heavens
Posted on January 4, 2011
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We thought we’d start the new year with something truly awesome. So here’s a photo of a section of the Eagle Nebula taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. What’s truly awesome is that this collection of stars – NGC 6611 – is 6,500 light-years from Earth. That’s an inconceivable distance, at least to most of us. Yet the Hubble sends back a gorgeous photo of the neighborhood. Read more
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