Connective Visions

A meditation on whether Americans don’t get exactly the postal service they deserve.

What is bothersome is the fact that I have been in this hospital with my father, preparing for this appointment, every week for a month – and still, no one seems to have the slightest idea who we are.

A science fiction anthology’s rise demonstrates the grass-roots potential of IT.

The Russian spy story of 2010 reminds us of how critical a role we have played in each other’s lives.

Update: My dialogue with my ISP is ongoing. I have a connection, but it drops radically from time to time. I can’t fault Verizon’s tech support for attention; they faithfully call every day to see how I’m doing and make suggestions. Still, it hasn’t

The end of February is giving rise to a kind of media, climatic, and geographical mass effect. The 16th day of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics came on the heels of another Northeast U.S. snowstorm (the third of the month, but in Philadelphia, happily, th

In an excellent bit of questioning, a friend remarked to me that most of my Facebook postings seemed to be about “imaginary farm animals” and professed that she didn’t understand the penchant of so many for “electronic farming.” A day later, four mor