The Changing Christmas Tradition

It's possible this house has an artificial tree because a live one is "too much of a hassle." Have you noticed that nothing re...

Hasn't Margarine Always Looked Like Butter?

In 1998, Beloit College launched its first Mindset List, designed to give faculty and staff insight into the worldview of the incoming fresh...

10 Years After: How We Remembered

10 Years After, 2011 : New York City will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with a ceremony at the W...

A Real Sign

. . .of the times.  Recently spotted in Scotland, but could have been almost anywhere.  Thanks to friend Matt.

Living the Incandescent Life

I enjoy the march of technology as much as the next person.  That doesn't mean, however, that when some treasured object is obsoleted, I...

The Machine in the Garden, 2011

Over vacation I read Leo Marx’s 1964 The Machine in the Garden .  It’s not exactly light reading but I needed it for a project I’m working o...

No More Complaining

It's easy to complain about our lot in corporate life.  The noisy, stuffy cubes.  The computer eyestrain.  The silly office rules.  The ...

Who’s Winning?

In the beginning, we anthropomorphized our machines.   “My hard drive is temperamental.”   “My computer hates me.”  “This #$%%ing machine wo...