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The sublime ministry of the Museum of Jurassic Technology

It’s unlikely, if you’ve never been to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, that I’d be able to adequately catch you up to speed in a single post. Hell, even if you had been there— and felt, like I did, that you’d found your new favorite thing in the universe— it still might get a little confusing.

Reading our way to the future – Lawrence Weschler at the Penn Humanities Forum

 Hello lovely people, I have a question for you.  Do you think that books will wither away in the future to be replaced by reading on the Internet?  What’s that…do I hear a vast shrugging of shoulders?  Well, Lawrence Weschler, whose lecture I heard last week at the Penn Humanities Forum, is awfully worried that books are in danger of dying at the “hands” of the world wide web.  And he’s so worried he talked exclusively about that issue for an hour.