2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you are anything like me you want to know about caves in Nottingham. I am incredibly sorry, but I just keep thinking about all these dying birds (birds are the worst!) Evidently the combination of books and alcohol is…
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Harlem Blues
Between 1915 and 1970, six million African-Americans left the oppression of the Jim Crow South to find freedom in California and the northern states. Most traveled by rail, with those in the Southeast taking the Seaboard Air Line up the…
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Cities In Dust
Have you ever been to Detroit? Ever witnessed, first hand, that once great American city in all the facets of its decline? If not, let these beautiful photographs take you on that journey now. If you have, revisit what you…
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Rewriting – or Righting – History?
The latest edition of Huckleberry Finn has had THAT word removed. Does such censorship destroy art – or is it long overdue? What happens when one of the greatest novels and one of the most offensive words in American history…
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Bewildered
Illustrations by BEN for a satirical adaptation of Don Quixote, published in Le Rire (France, 1939):
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
As Facebook grows, will it be able to maintain its small business vibe? The surge in internet-connected consumer devices means that parts of the world will run out of IPv4 addresses this year. Is the iPhone the new Mac? This…
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Let’s Float Free in the New Air
Such a surreal experience of the human body pervades See Me Improving. There is as much mystery in sneezing as there is in orgasm.