Information Maven: Greg Meyer

I found a very interesting if somewhat geeky piece on social bookmarking today. D-Lib (no, not a rapper but a digital library project) is an entirely online magazine supported by our friends at DARPA. Incidentally, they also published a case study of Conotea, a scientific tool for this purpose.
So why is DARPA […]

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I’m not going to see the movie tonight, even though I remember seeing the original several times in the theater and waiting in lines that stretched around the block for Empire and Jedi.
But I did watch a clever piece on Store Wars today. I’ve supported CSA agriculture before, particularly at Jubilee Farm, and found […]

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I noticed today this link to some old neon signs in LA. I’m not sure why I have an affinity for these signs, nor why I like graphics in the same general style on Fruit Crate Art of the 30s, 40s and 50s.

I think I like this stuff because it is quite elegant, […]

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Thomas Frank’s engaging book What’s the Matter with Kansas tackles a conundrum: how to explain the appeal that conservative politicians have in the once-Populist state. Frank’s thesis is simple, but his narrative is more tangled than a simple culture war come home to roost. Frank believes the people who benefit least from the […]

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Along with several other cars of tv-land past, the Super-Pursuit version of K.I.T.T. is for sale.
I don’t have a specific purpose for this entry, but it does give me the opportunity to point out some important David Hasselhoff resources for those who need more Knight Rider information (why, I don’t know either). Note: fans […]

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