authentication
“Certainly if a monk from seventh century Lindisfarne or Egypt were to come back today it is probable that he would find much more that was familiar in the practices and beliefs of a modern Muslim Sufi than he would with, say, a contemporary American evangelical. Yet this simple truth has been lost by our tendency to think of Christianity as a Western religion, rather than the thoroughly Oriental faith it actually is.”
William Dalrymple
authenticated tabulation
“There is no time left between now and Election Day for states and localities to upgrade their machines or even to fix the vote-dropping software. All they can do is double-check their vote totals, audit their paper trails and be on the lookout for the next, as-yet-undiscovered computer glitch. After that, Congress must require that all states adopt voting systems that include voter-verifiable paper records for every electronic vote cast.” New York Times
Another example is presented by the crisis of bank liquidity. The 2nd and 3rd party derivatives are easy to track and tabulate with computers, but impossible to understand. They lack authentication of value.
Of course the simple solution is for everyone to pay off their credit cards. That infusion of hard cash would liquify banks! Too bad there is no leadership to mention such an act of citizenship.
luvi
Linotype University 6 was another encounter with the other. Jessica White has some terrific close-ups that the real operators can see in their sleep.
native allure
We need a renewed amour for print reading, so let’s advance the allures native to the physical book. Almost always these will now be colored by their contemporary repositioning as disadvantages, but we know better.
There is assured re-reading from a physical, eye readable media. The allures of such re-reading have been well appreciated in the past, but overlooked. Likewise the intimacy of print reading can be enjoyed as well. With the print book the reader is assured authentic seclusion with him or herself. There is the excellent portability of conceptually heavy books. There is a pleasure of energy independence from battery charge or wireless and the pleasure of reading in daylight rather than in the dark.
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