Monday, October 24, 2011

Coda: Coney Island Retains Its Funkadelic Soul -- For Another Season

›
It was a brisk and lovely weekend at the Coney Island Boardwalk. Breezy and chilly in spots, lovely in the sunlight. Part wood, part cobble...
Friday, October 21, 2011

It's Friday in New York (and Everywhere Else I Guess But You Get the Idea)

›
How would Frank have viewed Occupy Wall Street?
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Thursday Morning: Gettin' On...

›
Jovanotti - Serenata Rap 1994 More on Jovanotti (aka Lorenzo Cherubini) here Serenata Rap lyrics here
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Occupied With Wall Street: Notes on a Popular Uprising

›
Leave it to the Wall Street Journal: What percentage are you ? While evidently not a resident of or embedded in Occupy Wall Street at Zucc...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Zizek at Zuccotti Park: Don't Be Afraid to Dream

›
There is a danger. Don’t fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember, carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Future Tense

›
New York's Finest and Occupy Wall Street Protesters clash  here   Pat Buchanan views the end of American Exceptionalism as he predicts...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

News -- On the March

›
21 Things You Didn't Know about Herman Cain here   Restaurant bans men from standing up to micturate  here
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

CODA: Faster than Light? Hold On There -- Not So Fast, Pardner

›
Despite the previous reporting from the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva which suggested that Flying Neutrinos -- I said Flying Neutri...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

"The Mill and the Cross" by Lech Majewski

›
Rutger Hauer as "Peasant Pieter (the Elder) Bruegel  Rutger Hauer, Lech Majewski, and Michael Yorke, during the making of "The Mi...
Friday, October 7, 2011

Digital+Culture+Style= The Story of Apple, Inc.

›
Steve Jobs leaves a trail of new products for future release/development here The day the notoriously private Steve Jobs contacted his fu...

The Global Woman: 3 Winners of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize

›
"[T]he road to freedom is long, the cost of freedom is high [and] the fight for freedom is not for the faint-hearted and the pessimists...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

American Visionary: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

›
Steve Jobs 1955-2011 From the NY TIMES obituary: "His worldview was shaped by the ’60s counterculture in the San Francisco Bay Area, w...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

What's Behind the Media, Political and Power Elite Disdain for "Occupy Wall Street" ? While Some NYPD Support and Refuse to Suppress the Activists?

›
from Kevin Gosztola's trenchant analysis on the opposition to "Occupy Wall Street":  "[Journalist John] Avlon is an exa...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Google@13: Dead Sea Scrolls Online

›
13 years and counting, Google posts the Dead Sea Scrolls online: Overview here The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls, beautifully rendered, are h...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Coda: Summer of Eleven Earthquake Shuts Washington Monument

›
The Washington monument is shuttered indefinitely for repairs following last summer's earthquake. Tourists ran from the building as it s...