AlterNet: Myth of the Universal Digital Library:
Sorry, but we can’t digitize everything. Here’s why …

A lot of Web geeks believe that one day everything ever created by humans will be available online. Call it the myth of the universal library. Here’s how the myth goes: Because there is unlimited real estate in cyberspace and because media can be digitized, we can fill cyberspace with all human knowledge and give everyone access to it. Without further ado, I present to you three arguments for eliminating the myth of the universal library.

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It is true, we can’t… do it… but then… that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to do something.

Can culture dictate the way we see? – being-human – 04 May 2007 – Print – New Scientist:
Culture can shape your view of the world, the saying goes. And it might be more than just a saying: a new study suggests that culture may shape the way our brains process visual information.

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yes… nice of them to note this… not that phenomenology and semiology haven’t said this 4000 times before and been right…. just that… now they are still right.

librarian.net » do you ubuntu?:
do you ubuntu?

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weee, cool little install video