Dear Facebook: I am not my music, even though I sometimes wish I were. I do not want to share 25 random facts about myself with even one other person, much less 139 of them. I do not want you to help me create my Witness Protection Program name. I do not want to know… Continue reading »
Archives for The Way We Live Now
Argh. Really.
It not just Emoticon Day, it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day. Please don’t.
Happy Emoticon Day :)?
Sept. 19, 1982: The electronic smiley face makes its debut. Interpersonal communication will never be the same again.
The “ATM of Books”
The Espresso Book Machine, coming soon to a library near you? In 5-7 minutes, the Espresso will deliver a printed-and-bound copy of any book you like (as long as it’s out of copyright and available in digital form through a collection the machine can access). The Espresso’s manufacturer, On Demand Books*, has big dreams for… Continue reading »
American Culture: Domesticity, Religion, and…Golf?
Yup, if Salman Rushdie, editor of this year’s Best American Short Stories, is to be believed: Q.What do the themes in this year’s best stories show about American culture today? A. There’s clearly an interest in domestic subjects, religious subjects, and, most mysteriously, in the game of golf. But there were enough wilder, more imaginative… Continue reading »
