What is the best way to sign your email? The closing, I mean. I’ve long wondered, and one day a long while back I was quite struck by the notion of asking Susan Sontag—because, well, she’d know. Now it’s too late, of course. She would not have written back, in any case, and so on […]
Dave Chapelle is here in South Africa. No wonder no one could find him.
I still don’t know who he is, as I don’t catch much American TV these days, yet he keeps parading through my headlines day after day, a sensation so singular it deserves a name.
The Ryan Seacrest Effect. Watch for it in […]
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which gives us doomsday in handy clock form, is holding a contest to design displays for its virtual museum. Winning entries will depict the eighteen settings of the clock’s hands, which have tracked worldwide nuclear anxieties since 1947.
The magazine’s board moved the clock two minutes closer to […]
Connotea is kind of a del.icio.us for scientists. I’m not one, but I crashed its gates and instantly found a link to Clay Shirky, who argues that “Ontology is Overrated”. Here he speaks not so much of philosophy–though that, too, falls within his purview–but of artificial intelligence and knowledge management, which also deal with entities […]
Sans ceremony (and–mostly–serifs), we begin.
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