[column size=”2/3″ center=”yes”] Old Books. Books you’ve had for years. Open them and they take you back; back to when they and you were new. Weathered, yellowed, textured. Spines split, and that old book smell – part dust and part memory. An old book is itself a bookmark in time. And now a monument. 20 years… Continue reading

Currently engineers & scientists building automated self-driving cars, are attempting two methods: Easier (actually very difficult): Cars that sense the road, and assist human drivers for specific tasks like self-parking, or avoiding accidents, or highway driving. And Elon Musk says Tesla’s high-tech cars will run on ‘auto-pilot’ 90% of the time by 2015. These are useful features for a human driver to have, but… Continue reading

Good lord, the whole situation is a debacle…what a knee-jerk reaction from Intel. #gamergate Intel buckles to anti-feminist campaign by pulling ads from gaming site //cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js “it’s increasingly difficult to defend a movement that decries what it argues is censorship, and then organizes co-ordinated strikes to silence those calling loudest for fairness and equality in… Continue reading

It occurs to me as I watch, that the celebrity-industrial-complex of 24-hour cable TV is the Roman ‘bread and circus’ of our time.. Continue reading

The critics all agree — ‘Fight’, episode 3 of the second season of ‘Masters of Sex‘ was a master-class of what television is capable of achieving in the art of storytelling. Exquisitely paced, delicately told, and played with a tough vulnerability by Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplain, it was a dance around the ring between their characters, while telling… Continue reading