As I mentioned in my last post, Terry Eagleton’s After Theory provides me with virtually no end of quotes to post on this blog. The quote below deals with the topic of the universality of morality, against both much of what is stated in postmodern theory and the disembodied ideals of much of the Enlightenment. […]
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Mark Bittman details his journey of observing a secular day of rest from technology over the past six months. Fascinating. I think I might just need to sign up. Link after the quote below:
Flying home from Europe a few months ago, I swiped a credit card through the slot of the in-seat phone, checked my e-mail […]
Article: Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic - New York Times
In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages. They strayed off to reply to other messages […]
Can I actually write about this? I have more questions than answers, especially since I’m afraid that I am more guilty of this than many.
And yet, I can say this with certainty: our Western world (and probably most of the rest of it, but I don’t know it well enough to say much) has been steadily […]
Edit: This applied to my old blog. I’m just leaving it here for the sake of posterity.Â
Hello everyone. I usually ruminate all deep and stuff on here, but I figured that I would take you on a guided tour of the various doodads that reside in my toolbar. I blame Cam!
LibraryThing
The first and best add-on […]
I’m reading C.S. Lewis’ autobiography “Surprised by Joy” right now, and it has a wonderful quote on the problems with cars:
I number it among my blessings that my father had no car, while yet most of my friends had, and sometimes took me for a drive. This meant that all these distant objects could be […]
