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Happy birthday to…
one of my favorite people, whom I see far too infrequently, kate_schaefer.
i hope you've been having a great day! Best wishes for the year ahead.
Moshe -
Birthday Wishes
Best wishes to whumpdotcom on his birthday! (Even if I didn't remember that was Bill Humphries until I looked it up!) -
The Israeli Foreign Ministry Goes to YouTube and I Respond Here
Shocked and saddened by the horror in Norway? Sick and tired of the debt-limit morass in Washington? Allow me to distract you with some opinions about another of the world's well-worn trouble spots.
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has posted a nice educational/PR/propaganda -- your choice -- video on YouTube. It's just a six minutes long, done ( Read more... ) -
Hugo Reminder - two week warning!
If you're a supporting or attending member of Renovation, you are eligible to vote in the 2011 Hugo Awards. As a nominee, I naturally hope you will. The voting deadline is now just two weeks away.
To help you cast an informed vote, the nominees and their publishers have graciously made nominated works, art and excerpts available electronically to ( Read more... ) -
Manhattanhenge
[Adapted from Newyorkology.com ( Read more... ) -
Handy Tips for Mac Users (with links for the rest of you)
David Pogue's column in the Times is devoted to tips and tricks for gadgets and software that many people don't know.
www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/technology/personaltech/19pogue.html
He followed up it with a bunch more on the Times website, which in turn is trailed by a host (159 right now) of suggestions from readers.
pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/ ( Read more... ) -
In Which I Am Interviewed by the Paper of Record
As those of you on Facebook know, there's a story in today's New York Times about the special Coca-Cola (made with sucrose as all Coke once was, rather than high fructose corn syrup) that is specially manufactured in the US for the benefit of observant Jewish consumers at Passover ( Read more... ) -
Borders and the Future of Publishing
Over on Facebook, I posted a link to an interesting short article on Quora by Mark Evans (Borders' former Director of Merchandise Planning & Analysis) in answer to the question, "Why is Barnes & Noble performing well as a business while Borders is near or has even reached bankruptcy?" [Everything on Quora is organized in terms of questions and ( Read more... ) -
Investing in the Future
Today's release of the President's budget reminds me of something that's been nagging at me since his State of the Union address ( Read more... ) -
This Magic Moment
Over on Facebook, I wrote about how thrilled I was by the news from Egypt.
In the long comment thread which followed, my friend Tim Kyger cited a famous story about Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention. I'll quote the first online version I found:
The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy ( Read more... )