Monthly Archives: December 2008

Six Thousand Languages

Posted on December 14, 2008 by

We currently have 6,000 languages in active use across the world; by 2050 we will have lost half of them.  Peter K. Austin, in — One Thousand Languages — takes us on a multicultural tour of the most interesting remaining … Continue reading →

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Pristine or Dog-Eared and Annotated?

Posted on December 9, 2008 by

Go to any used bookstore and peruse the most ragged looking of the books that they have. Books that have been read and reread, full of side notes and pages that are bent in every way conceivable. I often wonder … Continue reading →

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The Immediate Me and the Instant Now

Posted on December 4, 2008 by

In the comments stream for a previous article — A Semiotic History of Playing with Brains — I revealed the following:

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All the Down Days

Posted on December 2, 2008 by

America is shrinking.  We’re officially in a recession — for the last year without officially knowing it until yesterday — and the influence of the USA abroad is waning and is in danger of completely failing.  Is there really a … Continue reading →

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