I’m a digital pack rat. The odds are good that, if I wrote something of even minimal significance on a computer since the first one I owned back in 1988 (a dual-floppy disk system running MS-DOS with an amber-screen monitor), I still have a copy tucked away in some folder on my hard drive. And […]
Last week’s links
A half dozen of the most interesting things to pass through my browser in the past seven days. Birds who don’t need thumbs. Trustees who don’t need ethics. TSA agents who don’t need logic. Taxation that needs representation. A team that needs a new name. Surveillance that needs to end.
My old school
Yesterday’s snail mail brought me the latest in a nearly two-decade (and counting) series of requests from the University of Illinois to be a good alumnus and send them some money. Bracketing (at least for this post) the tenaciousness with which universities stalk their alums and beg for money, I was particularly struck by this […]