Earlier this month I took advantage of the “50% of custom framing” offer at Michael’s to get a frame put on the large Michael Zulli oil painting, “Na Tire Finne”, that I mentioned previously. I picked it up today, and I think it looks great in the frame: Apparently the frame the canvas is stretched on (as opposed to the… Read more →
Day: October 19, 2006
Educate Yourself On Darwin
Here’s another way to educate yourself that I ran into online today. The Guardian ran a piece on the opening of an online archive of the complete works of Charles Darwin. Here’s a quote: The collection brings Darwin’s breathtaking range of writing together for the first time, with 50,000 pages of searchable text, and tens of thousands of images, many… Read more →
Educate yourself.
You know, if you manage to avoid spam, porn, and piracy, there are lots of ways to communicate with intelligent people and educate yourself on the internet. The classic example, of course, would be academics. Improving communication amongst academics was one of the first purposes of the internet. Ironically most of the journals are locked up behind a copyright wall–journal… Read more →