Durham is growing its own crop of local businesses — not just local artists and boutique eateries, but also a love of handmade crafts and the pleasure of both making and admiring objects that, as William Morris might say, are both useful and beautiful. The Horse & Buggy Press, a local letterpress, has some wonderful [...]
Hat tip to Southern Folklife Collection’s Facebook feed
On my old blog, I devoted a long post to thinking about moral and ethical responses to panhandling. One economist suggested only giving money to those who are not asking for money; a playwright suggests giving when you feel charitable and holding back when you don’t. I was reminded of that old post by this Yahoo [...]
Wikipedia has become such a daily part of my online life (like email — remember life before email? Anyone?), that it’s both startling and a little thrilling to find outré articles or even stray sentences and paragraphs that make me do a double-take and read them again to make sure I read them right. There’s something [...]
I never fiddled with iTunes before I bought my iPod 5G in 2010 as my birthday present to myself. I found — and still find — iTunes to be both useful and maddening. Kirk McElhearn’s Take Control of iTunes ebook is a great resource for the music fan who just wants to get things done [...]