Dali House

Ah, simpler times. There’s a European newspaper (not the Danish one with the very worried cartoonists) that’s forging ahead with the paperless newspaper, which updates itself throughout the day via the Net, and much talk about sheets of sheer plastic on which the news magically updates through some trick of the molecular light.

Elsewhere progress isn’t in such a rush, media corporations content to merely downsize their broadsheets to chewable tabloid proportions for easier consumption by ever-mobile readers, and I think my own paper, Thailand’s The Nation, is ogling that possibility from a cautious distance.

In 1821 the British papers would have had stories about Greeks finding something more comfortable to rest their feet on than Ottomans and Spain losing not just Mexico and most of Central America to independence but Florida to those insatiable Americans. Oh, and that poor fellow Keats died and, somewhat less mournfully for the English, so did Napoleon. See the rest.

There’s a fella noodling around on Google Earth who has a website called Planetary Art Saved from Google Earth, where he stashes all the striking images he’s found of our planet forming itself (sometimes with human assistance) into astonishing eye candy. See the rest.