Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness | Video on TED.com.
An intriguing talk. If I lived in a dense urban area I might consider the editing he talks about. My main problem is that I don’t want to put my books into digital format.The second problem is that you can’t fit two people into his space. That will need some extreme editing.
I wonder how he gets that coffee table to seat 10 for dining? I think I found the link. Its not a coffee table.
Transforming Tables: Convert Coffee to Dining Surfaces | Designs & Ideas on Dornob.
Some neat ideas here.
I was recently reminded of what I consider to be the most heartbreaking moments in sports – Tom Watson’s 277th stroke in the 2009 Open Championship.
And one for the greatest comebacks they will never make a film of.
In my previous Post I remarked that I didn’t consider FDR’s Second Bill of Rights to be rights. Rather, I consider them to be responsibilities a society owes its members.
Just to clarify the matter, I believe Rights are what individuals holds within themselves. To say someone has a right to health care immediately implies that the health care giver is obligated and does not have the right to refuse. This violates the rights of the health care giver.The same may be said for housing, employment, education, etc.
But a Society does have the Responsibility to provide to its members health care access (even basic health care), basic housing, basic education, competitive opportunities in business, equal employment opportunities, and a social assurance to the elderly, disabled, unemployed and young. I think FDR’s Bill of Rights baselines a good deal of society’s responsibilities to its members.
Second Bill of Rights – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
I have just been watching Michael Moore’s Capitalism –A Love Storyand he ends with a recap of FDR 2nd Bill Of Rights.
Roosevelt’s remedy was to declare an “economic bill of rights” which would guarantee:
- Employment, with a living wage,
- Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies,
- Housing,
- Medical care,
- Education, and,
- Social security
I don’t believe these qualify as rights, but they are definitely components of the directive to promote the general welfare and we should incorporate them into our way of life.
This reminds me of a Love Story much as Romeo and Juliet does.
Moore ends the film with his wrapping of Wall Street with a Crime Scene tape and saying he can’t do this anymore. Do we want to join him? I think he has his answer two years later.
( He interviewed Wallace Shawn early in the film and I kept expecting an ‘inconceivable ‘.)
I did find a copy of l(a in my copy of The Norton Introduction to Literature – Poetry – edited by J.Paul Hunter. My edition goes back to 1973. And the layout in this edition is different from the on-line layouts. The ‘ll’ line has a space between the line above and the line below.
Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. – Slate Magazine.
The author makes a very good point that two spaces after a period is unnecessary in a proportional font world. Very useful in a in a mono-spaced world. I also thought the author spent too much time disparaging the double spacers of the world (probably needed to fill in all the space he had left).
One point for continuing the double space method is to make it easier to parse e-text by computer. Although with computing getting much more capable of figuring out what people intend, this may be a moot point.
And, of course, this does not apply to writers that are using the spaces on a page to complete their work.
I was trying to find a link, using E E Cummings as an example. I found l(a as a candidate and then went on to find at least three different versions on the web, laid out differently and spelled differently. And I don’t have a printed copy in hand to determine which version is closest to the author’s vision. But if you go to Collected Poems 1922-1938 you will see that a number of his poems depend on the actual layout of the letters and the empty spaces, as well as the content of the words.
American Spectator Editor Admits to Being Agent Provocateur at D.C. Museum | MyFDL.
At the very least I hope this asshole is convicted.
I know I shouldn’t be, but I am amazed at how little coverage the Occupy movement has gotten except to ridicule and disparage.
The way to understand all of this is to realize that it’s part of a broader syndrome, in which wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.
Elizabeth Warren and liberalism, twisting the ‘social contract’ – The Washington Post.
I wonder if George Will is being deliberately obtuse? He has taken Warren’s statement on the social contract and extends it into a collectivist political agenda.
The collectivist agenda is antithetical to America’s premise, which is: Government — including such public goods as roads, schools and police — is instituted to facilitate individual striving, a.k.a. the pursuit of happiness.
The individual striving is enabled by the government infrastructure and it is fair and equitable that any success in the pursuit of happiness provide some payback. And the greater the success the greater the payback should be. Or as Warren refers to it – pay forward.