Amazon.com revolutionizes independent publishing

I cribbed this from Warren Ellis. * Createspace.com: Amazon’s Print On Demand operation. Very interesting. For no money at all, you can create a book (or CD or DVD or whatever), get an Amazon Buy It Now badge for your website, and let them take care of...

Quick thoughts on Vick

The central meme that will define Vick’s circumstance is a simple one. He didn’t leave the hood in the hood. People make the same argument about Pacman, and used to make the same argument about AI. But here’s the thing. While there is a set of...

Dr. Asa Hilliard dies in Egypt

For a great many of us involved in black student politics on college campuses from Michigan to Howard, we came to our love of wisdom by dealing with the Ancients rather than the early Greeks. And our knowledge of ma’at and related concepts came not reading...