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ESTHER DYSON, editor of technology newsletter Release 1.0 for CNET Networks: The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. In my own experience, it has drawn my family closer, as we post pictures on Flickr. It has done more than tap into something latent; it has actually created something that wasn't there with the younger family members. We couldn't do that before because we were all geographically separated...
About surface: craftsmanship in large buildings is supposed to be dead, killed by Modernist ideology and cost considerations. What this building says is that maybe craftsmanship has a high-tech future after all. To connect the de Young visually to its setting in Golden Gate Park, the architects have wrapped the structure in a copper skin embossed and perforated to produce, from a distance, the appearance of dappled sunlight filtering through trees. That pattern was copied from the blurred pixels of a digital photograph, then converted by computer into a blueprint to guide the manufacture of holes and indentations...
...feel like I’ve never really been able to connect with my boyfriend. No matter what, he doesn’t communicate his feelings to me, I never know what he’s thinking about things, and I always feel confused. I feel silly addressing these problems to him because he hasn’t done anything concretely wrong. Any suggestions...
...achieving personal growth. Retired elementary school teacher Linda Sicher, 58, of New York City, for example, pieced together several volunteer turns to combat her greatest postwork fear: "that my brain will die." Not a chance. Each activity has taught her something new, and she has been able to connect the dots between them. Once every month she's on call at the Mt. Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention (SAVI) program, ready to speed to the side of a rape or abuse victim before the professionals arrive. Leveraging her training for SAVI, she created a program on child abuse...
...hunter’s rifle) with the psychoanalysis of the hunter once he returns to the city. Robinson says that this poem, like many of hers, is about art. But on my own I could not have been confident in that conclusion: I am unsure of how to connect the hunter’s “dreams of Lichenstein” with the psychiatrist’s desire to “seek other places to hide.” Nonetheless, the wittiness of lines like “Gelman blundered his way / into your heart. You found...