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How a bad idea starts: “That looks easy… I could do that.” How a good idea idea starts: “That looks fun… I should do that.”
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Month: September 2011
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Conservatives were always skeptical of the campaign to democratize higher education, arguing that it was bound to lead to lowered standards and loss of purpose. Events have confirmed their predictions, even if their diagnosis has done little to alter the path of the American university.
Typewriters live on in India
Computers may be everywhere today, but typewriters stay alive in India.
The factories that make the machines may be going silent, but India’s typewriter culture remains defiantly alive, fighting on bravely against that omnipresent upstart, the computer. (In fact, if India had its own version of “Mad Men,” with its perfumed typing pools and swaggering execs, it might not be set in the 1960s but the early 1990s, India’s peak typewriter years, when 150,000 machines were sold annually.)Credit for its lingering presence goes to India’s infamous bureaucracy, as enamored as ever of outdated forms (often in triplicate) and useless procedures, documents piled 3 feet high and binders secured by pink string.
Also, since many homes don’t have electricity, typewriters function well to keep India’s ever-growing workforce, productive all hours.
via latimes.com
Three Minute Philosophy – John Locke
(by CollegeBinary)
MoMA Exhibitions
I spent some time this week checking out the exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art—online of course, since I’m not in NYC
100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON
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Triptychs of Strangers #19, The Sunday Faced Cupholder – London (by theblackstar)
I was about to leave Spitalfields Market and recognized our stranger leaving with a so called “early morning sunday face”. Sundays – speaking of which. If you ever thought about doing strangers, consider starting on a Sunday. Most shops are closed and everyone seems to enjoy just sticking around – waiting for you to take advantage of moments like these.
Where Children Sleep
Where Children Sleep presents English-born photographer James Mollison’s large-format photographs of children’s bedrooms around the world—from the U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China and India—alongside portraits of the children themselves.
via Where Children Sleep: James Mollison’s Poignant Photographs | Brain Pickings
(He reminds me of the kid from UP.)
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