Criticasociala's Blog New Politics New Left Review Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting -- New York Magazine Book Review Reading a handwritten article about handwriting, in a 21st-century magazine, is like listening to your great-great-grandfather shout in the middle of a crowded multiplex about the incomparable glories of vaudeville and the lost art of wearing hats in public. And yet, somehow, here we are. Certain vestigial urges have been awakened, deep in the muscles of my fingers and wrists, by Script & Scribble, Kitty Burns Florey’s paean to the now nearly defunct barbarism of dragging ink trails across paper. (I’ve switched to print, for the reasons we always end up switching to print: My handwriting, set against a neat field of type, looks like a giant mess of alien runes, and my keyboard-weakened fingers tend to cramp up after a couple of sentences.) Florey, a nun-educated “scriptomaniac,” lovingly traces the history of handwriting, from its ancient birth to its imminent demise. Handwriting, today, is artisanal—an emblem of slowness in an impatient world.
International Socialism Socialist Review Search Academic Journals Deadly Computer Blog » The most usefull book shelf ever Apartment Therapy has a nice find of what I consider the best bookshelf ever. Built into the staircase, and still usable as a stair case are book shelves, and lots, and lots of books. I don’t have this many books, but I know someone who does, and she would get much good use out of something like this. {Gizmodo} Verso Books Home Page