More than a third of divorce filings last year included the word "Facebook."
Simon Critchley at the NYT blog, Opinionator, has a 3-part series on the Gnostic-infused ramblings of Philip K. Dick toward the end of his life. Dick was the author of several books on which popular films have been based, including Blade Runner and The Adjustment Bureau. Though what fans now call his "Exegesis" is fascinating, it's deeply sad. I'm not sure I see anything more in "Exegesis" but the fevered writings of an unraveling mind stitching together random philosophical musings to make sense of what is clearly a psychotic break. Part One is here.
Though I'm no fan of the President's ideology, this is a beautiful story about the iconic photo of a black child touching Obama's head to confirm he's "just like me."
The Internet that connects the world is dependent upon undersea fiber-optic cables. Here's an excerpt from a book on the surprisingly-fascinating topic of laying and managing this backbone of the modern world.
"My dad texted me after watching [the season finale of Glee]. 'Ryan Murphy’s vision of utopia makes me sad. He is quite the evangelist,' he wrote. I agree. [Glee creator] Murphy is an evangelist. Sometimes he’s right, and sometimes he’s wrong, but as we’ve seen this season, he is always ready with a Tuesday night song and sermon, simplistic and cliched though they may be. Let’s just be sure our Sunday morning song and sermon (not to mention our lives) are offering a truer, more compassionate, more complex, and more beautiful story: the story that we were born this way, but we can all be changed into something glorious" (Read Amy Lepine Peterson's post here).
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