All too often we assume that the good life is about ease. It's the one presented in a million infomercials about how to make money flipping foreclosed properties:
If you have a subscription to Travel Weekly Plus, don't miss my interview. If you don't have a subscription, it looks like you're out of luck. You'll just
When I was in elementary school, the student newspaper had a little section of anonymous messages between students. The only time I got into it was when someone
So I saw this in my Twitter stream this evening: Tonight a driver almost killed me. At light, I told him to be careful. He said, "Why?" Me:
Apparently there people who text while flying-- but it's worth noting the details in this story as well. Federal safety officials on Tuesday blamed [helicopter pilot james] Freudenberg's
From the conclusion of Bertrand Russell's 1948 BBC Reith Lectures on "Authority and the Individual" (mp3, or transcript):We know too much and feel too little. At least we
I've had a rash of comment spam in the last couple days. Normally I get one or two pieces a day, which Typepad itself often catches, but in
A while ago I wrote a piece about writing for the trades. As someone who'd written for academic audiences, and for corporate and government clients, it was interesting
From John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, The Social Life of Information: There's a story told of a typesetter working on a Greek text at the Oxford University
According to James Gleick, the Chinese character for "look" is a compound of the characters for "hand" and "eye." An interesting suggestion that vision has a physical, manual
