Via Greenflame – Check out this post by Kevin Kelly on "Neo-Amish Digital Dropouts." Seems like the closer you are to totally plugged in, the closer you'd be to wishing to unplug entirely. In my life it feels like I ride through surges of intense connectivity followed by spates of odd revulsion to being so [...]
Via the LanguageHat blog: David Crystal of the UK Guardian writes: "Research has made it clear that the early media hysteria about the novelty (and thus the dangers) of text messaging was misplaced. In one American study, less than 20% of the text messages looked at showed abbreviated forms of any kind – about three [...]
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And it seems, very little respect for the beliefs and traditions of other people. These would be traits one would expect to be present in greater quality and quanity in a professional religion writer. Washington Post/Newsweek writer Sally Quinn on taking communion at Tim Russert's funeral: "Last Wednesday at Tim's funeral mass at [Holy]Trinity Church [...]
Via 802Online … Vermont Red Cross volunteers blogging as they travel to Lousiana to assist in the relief efforts.
Vermont emergency management officials are collecting non-perishables at a number of locations around the state today and tomorrow. I stopped by the one in Montpelier, on the State House lawn, this afternoon, to snap a picture for the Rutland Herald and Times Argus Web sites. The energy was intense, and the flow of people bringing [...]
Watching/reading the coverage about Katrina
A summer feast; tastes of Spain via the Rutland Herald.
Well, I had to look hard for it, but I turned up a good review of the new Keanu Reeves movie Constantine. Wanted to see it, from the first trailer but every review I saw panned it … until I saw this one. Jeff Otto at http://filmforce.ign.com says it’s, "An achievement of both story and [...]
Slate Asks: "Do You Feel Holy, Punk? – Keanu Reeves, as an Exorcising Dirty Harry, in Constantine"
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