The characters on Lost have their post H-bomb parallel reality, and I have mine. Here are some dispatches from the other side:
Review: Joseph Heller: A Descriptive Bibliography. By Matthew J. Bruccoli and Park Bucker
Review: Humanizing Information Technology by Julian Warner
Review: D. Anthony Storm’s commentary on Kierkegaard
Review: Critical companion to Flannery O’Connor
Review: The Deaths of the Popes
Review: The Academic Blog Portal
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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Checked out the site. I am interested in your understanding of the underlying technology. Assuming you are a non-geek (ng), it would be interesting to hear the user's perspective. Looks like you may have written about it in one of your articles. Also, your iPad post was interesting.
From a my god-like perch in the technology world the iPad is finally getting close to meeting my personal computing needs. I need the computer to be an extension of my brain. It sort of a USB for the mind. The iPad is very close to that for me.
Do you know what mash-ups are?
You can't be a librarian in this age and not have a little geek in you. So I don't think "non-geek" quite applies. "Near-geek," maybe. My nascent geek urges are what pushed me into library work, in addition to love of learning and lit and books and things. But it is a love-hate mash-up.
I'm a fan of D. Anthony Storm as well. He's my first go-to man when I cannot understand what Soren is on about, which is quite a lot of the time.
Say you take someone like Soren. You want to read him. You also want a historical perspective of the period, perhaps the top ten headlines, top ten art works from his time, other thinkers influenced by him. You type in SK's name and ask the computer to give you a full monty overview of SK and his period. The computer aggregates all that information spews out to your device.
That's what I want when I want the info. I want the machine to churn through the data, and tell me about it. Do you understand what I am proposing?
cnb: Glad to hear from you. Korrektiv is making progress towards world blogospheric domination — and you are an important Kierkegaardian/Canadian element. Not to mention the physics. We will need that eventually.
cube: I think I do understand. (Man, you are a geek.) But I'm not sure I want my info that way, even if a machine could be made to do a decent job of serving it up on a platter (which I doubt). I don't think humans are designed to receive that kind of info dump. We need the pursuit. I think the path you're proposing is fraught with danger and temptation along the lines of what the serpent promised Eve.