Monthly Archives: November 2012

Survival of the fittest, music edition…

I love stories about how industries/organizations/people react to big changes in their worlds, but have you ever read an article and come away with a suspicion that people don’t really know anything? I know, I know, political punditry (and any article that starts, ‘What Obama needs to do is..’). Anyhow, I somehow felt this nagging […]

November 30, 2012 – 1:43 pm | By Peter | Posted in Art, Change | Comments Off on Survival of the fittest, music edition…

The screwdriver

I think about Witold Rybczynski’s book One Good Turn (which is a history of the screwdriver and the screw) more than is healthy for a person. Discussing his possible candidates for ‘tool of the millenium,’ Rybcyynski contemplates the power saw: “Does one of my carpenter’s tools qualify as the millennium’s best? I discount power tools. […]

November 9, 2012 – 1:57 pm | By Peter | Posted in Institutional, Technology | Comments Off on The screwdriver