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Intro to Blogging

On February 27, 2008March 5, 2008 By ChaunceyIn Modern life2 Comments

I came across this lovely introduction to blogging last week. I recommend nearly everything about it, including its brevity. “Elegance” is an old term of art in many fields, including science and mathematics, referring to the combination of effectiveness and simplicity. This is an elegant posting. Read and tell me what you think. Here.

Life, Art, and Obama

On February 27, 2008March 5, 2008 By ChaunceyIn Modern lifeLeave a comment

Check out this lovely riff on the parallels between the final season of “The West Wing” and the current Obama phenomenon. Here.

Extraordinarily Entertaining Deadly Serious Talk on Our Culture by Larry Lessig

On January 17, 2008January 17, 2008 By ChaunceyIn Design of Enterprise, Language, Modern lifeLeave a comment

Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law Professor, author of Code, and one of the people responsible for Creative Commons gives a wonderful TED talk about our children, our culture, technology, and the past and future of thinking.

Click here to watch it.

Watch it and say what you see!

Craig Burton introduced me to the poet Taylor Mali. Wonderful!

On March 23, 2007March 23, 2007 By ChaunceyIn Modern life2 Comments

In the following clip, Taylor Mali, a teacher and poet, recites a poem of his in which he is being challenged by a lawyer during a dinner party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU

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