If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?
Discourse was deemed Man's noblest attribute, And written words the glory of his hand;
Then followed Printing with enlarged command For thought—dominion vast and absolute
For spreading truth, and making love expand.
Now prose and verse sunk into disrepute
Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit
The taste of this once-intellectual Land.
A backward movement surely have we here,
From manhood, —back to childhood; for the age— Back towards caverned life's first rude career. Avaunt this vile abuse of pictured page!
Must eyes be all in all, the tongue and ear Nothing? Heaven keep us from a lower stage!
From manhood, —back to childhood; for the age— Back towards caverned life's first rude career. Avaunt this vile abuse of pictured page!
Must eyes be all in all, the tongue and ear Nothing? Heaven keep us from a lower stage!
To Tweet, Or Not To Tweet. That Is The Question (For Law Professors)
Following up on my previous post, Tax Prof Twitter Census (2019-20 Edition) (Updated): Law.com, To Tweet, or Not to Tweet. That Is the Question (for Law Professors):
Law
professors are trained to share their thoughts in lengthy, exhaustively
footnoted journal articles. So it makes sense that the legal academy as
a whole was initially reluctant to embrace Twitter, a medium that
forces users to be concise and where the conversation can be
bare-knuckled.
Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis – Mark Vernon.
… the parables of Jesus are not primarily moral tales about how to behave well, Barfield argued. For one thing, if read like that, many of them seem amoral if not immoral. Instead, they are akin to disturbing allegories and strange stories. If we listen to them aright, they imaginatively jolt us out of our suppositions and open our hearts and minds to receive what Jesus called “life in all its fulness”.
Ethics Centre raises the big questions
Ethics is good for business: Fact or fluff?
Dr Simon Longstaff and UTAS vice-chancellor Rufus Black ...
Cutting through the spin: the brutal reality of an Ethics Centre ...
The ethics of everything: Simon Longstaff
Brian M. Kane, Ph.D. is the author of the IPPY Award-winning biography Hal Foster: Prince of Illustrators, and edits the New York Times Best-Selling Prince Valiant reprint series from Fantagraphics Books.
New York Times – Here are a few simple things to at least prevent the worst problems and keep most of your private information as safe as possible from hacks or security negligence. “Everything you do online is tracked, logged and studied by someone, either through advertising or more malicious means. Being watched is an unpleasant feeling; it’s gotten to the point where even my “I have nothing to hide” friends are growing uncomfortable with the whole thing. As the privacy and security editor for Wirecutter, a New York Times company that reviews and recommends products, I’ve tested a variety of fixes over the years, and the following items are what I recommend to anyone who wants to beef up his or her digital security. The only way to be truly safe from the prying eyes of social networks and advertisers is to leave the internet for good, but because most people won’t or can’t go to that extreme, these tools will help prevent the worst problems and keep most of your private information as safe as possible from hacks or security negligence. In collaboration with Wirecutter, here are five cheap(ish) things to help keep your internet presence a little more private…”
Myke Cole, via The New
Republic
The myth of the
mighty warrior-state has enchanted societies for thousands of years. Now it
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