Eric’s memorial is today in Wichita Falls, there will be a Zoom for people to attend remotely. James Grierson has a great post remembering Eric. More links and my own writing on Eric is here. I can’t believe it’s been a month already… I find myself returning to his blog or tribute site frequently wh...
After a false start earlier in the day, this afternoon saw a successful expedition to a hashpoint in a pasture of Newbri…
Editors were once heroic literary figures, spotting and nurturing hidden talent. Conglomeration in publishing has change…
"Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is... on…
Practical tools for design engineers to explore possible futures through speculative design
Yesterday the FAA grounded every domestic departure in the United States for more than four hours. Such groundings appea…
do videos have more impact?
A strategy of means, not ends
The Figs in Winter archive is deep, here are some choice bits
Nobody wants to be inefficient. But is efficiency as simple a concept as we think?
Lecture 4 of Frederic Schuller’s Theoretical Mechanics, translated from the German
From Big Think and Pop Charts, A Literary Map of America that “highlights the real and imagined settings of hundreds of books”. Frank Jacobs takes a closer look at some of the imaginary places on the map, including Sleepy Hollow, Lake Wobegon, Brokeback Mountain, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s East Egg a...
Read slowly. There is no hurry.