Rough Drafts

David Weinberger writes: “I realized why I’m not as happy as I should be given the externalities of my life: […]

WSJ CareerJournal: Demand Explodes for Librarians With High-Tech Research Skills. There’s a newfound respect for librarians — due mainly to

UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering publishes an outstanding magazine highlighting new research. Called Lab Notes, it’s written and edited by

I’ve been thinking for a couple weeks about a Derrida quote that somebody put into this AKMA’s blog awhile back:

“E-mail alone has some while ago turned us all into cyborgs in ways that are increasingly difficult to feel and

A U.K. writer has been given a grant of 2,000 UK pounds “to use sheep to create random poems, which

The NYT has a piece that examines why poetry readings are so excruciating: It’s that ubiquitous poetry voice: “a sort

Beliefnet is recycling an old but intriguing article by Gregg Easterbrook, in which he points out that Jesus reduced the

Ephraim Schwartz notices that mobile technology isn’t exactly giving us more free time. Glenn Fleishmann follows up with with this

Xeni Jardin cracks me up. First she wonders, What if Spiderman had been a Bollywood epic? The result: Dancing Spidey.