The author is Tina Brown.
The sad but reality-informed article is on today's Daily Beast here.
The picture of the day is here:
The publication is called: More Intelligent Life. You may see it here.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Phrase of the Day, Picture of the Day
The phrase is "Welcome to the age of Gigonomics."
The author is Tina Brown.
The sad but reality-informed article is on today's Daily Beast here.
The picture of the day is here:
The publication is called: More Intelligent Life. You may see it here.
The author is Tina Brown.
The sad but reality-informed article is on today's Daily Beast here.
The picture of the day is here:
The publication is called: More Intelligent Life. You may see it here.
Garotas Suecas
Tip of the hat to Carrie for the pointer.
I did not know about the music of Garotas Suecas till just now and am glad to have added them to the list of new music to consider.
Below is a sample.
If garage rock/slightly punk-ish sounds are something you enjoy occasionally, this might be a good one. If Pop Art a-la-Warhol is more your thing, then the video might strike a chord, too. The video, actually, did strike a major chord with me.
Either way, this Brazilian band has various gripping things to offer and I'll give them some time.
Their Myspace page is here.
I did not know about the music of Garotas Suecas till just now and am glad to have added them to the list of new music to consider.
Below is a sample.
If garage rock/slightly punk-ish sounds are something you enjoy occasionally, this might be a good one. If Pop Art a-la-Warhol is more your thing, then the video might strike a chord, too. The video, actually, did strike a major chord with me.
Either way, this Brazilian band has various gripping things to offer and I'll give them some time.
Their Myspace page is here.
Stanley Fish Talks Burris and St. Augustine?
Leave it to Stanley Fish to make my Monday morning an especially interesting one. Well, that and the fact that it's pleasantly quiet and I had a particularly gripping Sunday. But I digress.
Fish, a Humanities expert extraordinaire is doing a 'reading' of the Burris text and what it might represent. To make his point, he evokes the Middle Ages, the Donatis, Thomas Hobbes, and an array of contemporary political names and notions.
The paragraph that jumped out to me was the following. I would concur with it on principle:
"Virtue is a fine thing and it would be better if those who govern us instantiated it. But virtue is, for most human beings, an occasional achievement – sometimes you are, sometimes you aren’t – and, moreover, there is no public test, no test everyone would agree to, for determining its presence."
Read more here.
Fish, a Humanities expert extraordinaire is doing a 'reading' of the Burris text and what it might represent. To make his point, he evokes the Middle Ages, the Donatis, Thomas Hobbes, and an array of contemporary political names and notions.
The paragraph that jumped out to me was the following. I would concur with it on principle:
"Virtue is a fine thing and it would be better if those who govern us instantiated it. But virtue is, for most human beings, an occasional achievement – sometimes you are, sometimes you aren’t – and, moreover, there is no public test, no test everyone would agree to, for determining its presence."
Read more here.
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