I said I didn’t feel like blogging today, but this picture pretty much captures my mood: —Yahoo’s Idea of ‘Entertainment’ (Yahoo! News) This photo rather indelicately appears in Yahoo’s “Entertainment” section, as part of a profile of Edward Teller (inventor of the hydrogen bomb). As a kid growing up in the 80s, when Russia was still…
Skyscrapers in general, and the twin towers of the World Trade Center in particular, symbolize, for many writers, either prideful arrogance, or a new technological beauty. This site attempts to survey what has already been written on this topic. —World Trade Center: Literary and Cultural Reflections I first put this page up on the afternoon…
Jill/txt describes Beadgee At first you see a collection of gizmos, each connected to a rhyme. Choose a gizmo and explode it into its separate pieces and a dot will start to dance along the words of the rhyme attached to it, just as a nun runs her fingers slowly along the beads on her…