Yesterday, it was announced that 30 million Windows Live Spaces blogs were being moved over to WordPress.com as Microsoft gives up the ghost of their free blogging space to Automattic.
Continue reading → Windows Live WordPress Spaces: Is Microsoft Buying Automattic?
Boys cry — but they don’t wave — and we never Baby Wave like Bristol Palin did last night on Dancing with the Stars.
Continue reading → Bristol Palin's Baby Wave and Why Real Men Nod
In my recent article on William James, he taught us How to Know a Good Man, and part of his argument referenced a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson:
Stevenson says somewhere to his reader: “You think you are just making this bargain, but you are really laying down a link in the policy of mankind.”
I was intrigued by that quotation, and I decided to return to the source material to read the entire quotation in context. Here’s what I found on page 20 of Stevenson’s fine book, Lay Morals:
Continue reading → Robert Louis Stevenson on the Moral Bargain
I first noticed the phenomenon of the sticker left intentionally on the baseball cap a few years ago when I was living in Seattle and visiting New York. It may have been going on longer than that but like many things, I could not unsee that which I had seen and I noticed it with increasing frequency once i had actually moved back to New York.
Continue reading → New Era Cap Stickers and Price Tags Left on Clothing
Yesterday I was sent the following piece of fan mail — for you, really, not for me — and I share it with you now:
I didn’t realize intelligent conversation (sans political banter) existed on the internet. How refreshing.
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