Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them?
September 30, 2010 | Posted in Literature | 2 commentsThose were glorious days, the ones I spent reading “Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case,” by Allen Weinstein. It is a book that I, having long had an interest in domestic Communist intrigues, had been meaning to read for years — decades — and I vividly remember that moment a couple of summers ago when, on my way to visit friends in New Hampshire, I found a hardcover copy in good condition at a restaurant-cum-used-book-store. Read more…
Religious Literacy: Americans Don’t Know Much About Religion
September 28, 2010 | Posted in Freethinking | No commentsA new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Read more…
New Rule: Rich People…
September 24, 2010 | Posted in Politics | No commentsNew Rule: Rich People Who Complain About Being Vilified Should Be Vilified
New Rule: The next rich person who publicly complains about being vilified by the Obama administration must be publicly vilified by the Obama administration. It’s so hard for one person to tell another person what constitutes being “rich”, or what tax rate is “too much.” But I’ve done some math that indicates that, considering the hole this country is in, if you are earning more than a million dollars a year and are complaining about a 3.6% tax increase, then you are by definition a greedy asshole. Read more…
Roy Lichenstein .AI .PSD Tutorial
September 4, 2010 | Posted in Tutorials | No commentsThere are quite a few tutorials showing how to create this type of image, but I decided to try it myself. I haven’t checked any tutorial because I wanted to play with the tools, so the technique might be the same as other tutorials but I really don’t know. Read more…
Minimalist Music Video Posters
September 3, 2010 | Posted in Art | No commentsDopo i numerosi poster minimalisti dedicati ad alcuni celebri cult movie italiani Read more…