Great Depression – Thang Nguyen 555

08/19/2011

Last summer day

The academic calendar starts just about now. A different season. Different drum beat. Formula and conjugation. Grades and test scores. Cafeteria and classroom. Principal and peers. Pranks and punishment. Same starting point, different finish lines. Education is democratic in nature. I admire people in wheel chairs, still being wheeled their way around the library, trying to reach…

The trilogy and the tragedy

Back in September of 2008, the first of the Trilogy (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) provided us with a perfect literary escape: exotic, foreign yet so close to home. She managed to play with fire and rose from the grave to finally “kick the hornet’s nest”. What a catharsis! You look at the two columns,…

facebook lite

On Facebook Lite, people with mobile devices can just send a quick comment and get on with hearing the President Speech. http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/11/with-facebook-lite-a-step-deeper-into-twitter-terrain/ Social networking not “for here” but “to go”. It’s the equivalent of talking to friends while on a moving train or automobile, or while paying at the cash register. We are a society…