22 Sep 2002
Sun, 22 Sep 2002
Jorg Grundler's Stunning Photograph
Jorg Grundler's stunning photography takes us back to a time and place that I didn't know photography was capable of doing. Phenomenal.
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MIT Puts Everything Online For Free
Congratulations are in order to MIT for bringing to fruition a project that has been talked about for a while now. That project will put virtually all of MIT's educational materials online over the next ten years. [bbc technology]
MIT staff point out that if this initiative is successful, and other institutions follow, it will put the net back on track towards its original goal of sharing information and knowledge around the world, rather than selling CDs and t-shirts.
And that's a worthy cause!
One has to wonder whether Philip Greenspun had anything to do with this and if so, what role he played. He's certainly been championing this kind of publishing for years via his own sites and books.
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Pittsburgh ranked 3rd Most Religious Large Metro Area
PittsburghLIVE.com: Pittsburgh ranked 3rd most religious large metro area
The region's strong religious affiliation traces back to two key factors — ethnicity and age, said James Hanigan, chairman of the theology department at Duquesne University.
"People here still identify strongly with their ethnicity," he said. "For many such people, their religion and their ethnicity are somehow tied up, where to be one is to be the other."
With its large number of elderly residents, Pittsburgh also has a comparatively big share of believers from a generation that sees faith as being part of an institutional church, rather than as a purely personal matter that can exist outside organizational walls, Hanigan said.
I'm slowly coming to grips with why I find living here so distasteful.
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