Books for free
With so much out there to read, the idea of borrowing or buying all of those books can be daunting, never mind coming up with space to store hundreds of…
Prosophobia
Sub: What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages, they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. –Sigmund Freud Five hundred years ago, most…
What to read, what to read?
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. –Mark Twain So, you’re in college to gain some sort of knowledge or…
Your OS sucks!
Brand fanatics miss the point about the computer as a tool I am multi-lingual–that is, I speak Linux, OS X and Windows with equal ease–and I am here to tell…
I’m not texting
An analog lament by a digital savant In almost every class I’ve taken in the past two or three years, sometime while covering the syllabus, the instructor says something like:…
Tech Talk: Fair is fair
Saving the world one latte at a time One of the great inequities of the global economy is that corporations based in wealthy nations can often dictate the terms of…