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≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ 1 Comment
The 2009 TED conference, which featured a long list of well-known speakers, wrapped up on Friday. And now you can watch two of the key presentations online. First, and featured above, you’ll get Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and now major philanthropist, talking about how to change the world through education and disease prevention. It’s a good [...]
≡ Category: History | ≅ 1 Comment
The Library of Congress has added a series of images to Flickr that will “let you see how Lincoln looked over 20 years—from the earliest known photographic likeness in 1846, through the U.S. presidential campaign of 1860, and the pressures of the Civil War years. Views from Lincoln’s funeral in 1865 and portraits of his immediate [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
As I gather material for the blog, I often come across content that’s interesting, but not quite right for the blog. It seemed like Twitter might be a good place to add this bonus material. So from here on out, I’ll casually add some extra content there. Today, I just mentioned how you can get [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 2 Comments
This week marks the 50th anniversary of “the day the music died.” That’s Don McLean’s way of talking about the 1959 airplane crash that cut short the budding lives and careers of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. In ’59, Buddy Holly’s musical career was just getting started, but his influence [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, e-books | ≅ 1 Comment
Google announced yesterday that it’s making a large number of books available via web-enabled mobile phones. Now, Amazon has said that it will unveil a new version of the Kindle next week and also make Kindle titles available on a variety of mobile phones. You can get more info here. UPDATE: We have created a large [...]
≡ Category: Apple | ≅ 2 Comments
We originally posted this video back in 2009, and it seems like the right time to bring it back. It captures the first of many times that Steve Jobs thrilled audiences with the promise of what technology could deliver. The video takes you back to January 1984, when Jobs demoed the first Macintosh. A young Jobs, [...]
≡ Category: Books, e-books, Literature | ≅ 3 Comments
Wow. Point your mobile web browser to books.google.com/m and you can read full books on your portable device. According to The Globe and Mail, Google is making 500,000 books, most from the public domain, freely available to you. And if you live in the US, the number will reach 1.5 million. The collection includes works [...]
≡ Category: Science, Stanford, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
This week the 2009 TED Conference is kicking into full gear, and it’s getting live blogged by BoingBoing throughout the week. See for example here, here and here. If you’re familiar with the TED format, you’ll know that the goal is to take influential thinkers and have them deliver the “talk of their lives” in [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
A good find by the LA Times Books Blog that we picked up on Twitter: Somewhere back in the Sports Illustrated archive, you’ll find William Faulkner writing in 1955 about seeing his first hockey game (the Rangers v. the Montreal Canadiens at Madison Square Garden). And then we have Don Delillo doing his own piece in 1972, [...]
≡ Category: Religion, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
Given that we were talking about the historical Jesus yesterday, this piece in the Utne Reader caught my eye … What happens when you’re running a 14th century convent in Southern Spain that’s nearly broke? You could call up Jake and Elwood. Or, if you’re Mother Isabel and you run the show, you put a [...]
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