The Persistence Of This Illusion Is Astonishing

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Maurice FitzGerald — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:09:54 +0000

Goodbye To The New York Review Of Books

Maurice FitzGerald — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:32:46 +0000

SO I’ve been reading a bit of the New York Review Of Books lately. I was thinking about subscribing. I’ve always thought of it as some kind of last bastion of thought in america. Unfortunately it currently offers nothing interesting. The articles seem like they were tossed off in an afternoon and were written from a template. There isn’t even anything interesting about its political opinion pieces. I read an article on a book of about Philosophy by Freeman Dyson. It was like something from Time Or Newsweek. It talked about personalities and anecdotes while dismissing philosophy as something that pretty much doesn’t exist anymore. The author names Heidegger and Wittgenstein saying that the former established Existentialism and the latter only wrote one book. He goes on to conclude that Heidegger”Lost all Credibility” after the early 30′s and sums up Wittgenstein by noting his tragic family situation which must have led him to write that first book. How utterly disappointing. Then there was that article published just after the election penned by Paul Volcker calling for some domestic austerity programs and to top it off there was a glowing review of the latest Spielberg Movie. I’m going to check out the London review of books and see if that is any better.

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New Day Rising

Maurice FitzGerald — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:08:08 +0000

Anybody use google goggles on their phone. Yesterday I used my phone to take a photo of pdf i had open in my tablet. It read the words and found the book on google books. To me that was amazing. The other day i took a photo of a can of snuff and it found a photo of it on the web. As time goes by and people give feedback to the goggles program I’m sure pretty much anything will be able to be recognized. You could translate books on the fly. Once they come out with the google glasses the world change. You will be able to walk around with the largest library that has every existed and the whole world will be be tagged. #Google Goggles #Google Glasses

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Google Glasses, Google Goggles, Technology