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.
Category: Modern life
Life, Art, and Obama
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
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!
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.
Chauncey Bell Blog 