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On the Meaning of Magic
People who like to slag on Apple regularly complain about their use of the term “magical” to describe the iPad. For instance: I’ll tell you what is magical. Harry Potter, unicorns and sawing women in...
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The Good Kind of Silence of the Lambs
In the Roman Catholic World, today is World Communications Day today, the day set aside by the Bishops at the Second Vatican Council for Catholics to reflect on the role of communications in the world....
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Criminals Are Always One Step Ahead of Security: Tax-spoofing
Most thinking about security of online financial transactions focuses on security of the connection to the financial institution and the institution’s ability to police its systems from unauthorized...
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Electronic Bibles for the Analog Wayfarer
From Oliver Smith at The Telegraph, From today, all 148 rooms at the Hotel Indigo [in Newcastle, England] will contain a Kindle e-reader pre-loaded with a copy of the Bible. The hotel is claiming to be...
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It Only Gets Better When We Redefine “Better”
Intriguing reflection by Matt Buchanan at BuzzFeed (It Never Gets Better) about how strongly we buy into the promise of technology: There’s an update waiting for you. For your apps, for your computer...
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@Pontifex: Spirituality, Twitter and the Complexity of Diverse Audiences
Today marks the entry of the Vatican into the Twitter-verse as the Pope starts tweeting at @Pontifex. As of this morning, he has three quarters of a million followers. As a Roman Catholic who is used...
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Binge Watching Is Changing Us: Recognizing the Power of Imagination
It may not be one of the great novels of all time, but one of my favorite reading experiences was Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose. Genre wise, it is a historical-fiction whodunit set in a medieval...
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