by Pier Marton | Oct 5, 2011 | Art, Books, Care, Death, Eco, Future Tech, Health, Humor, Ideas, Idées, iOS, iPhone, Mac, Middle-East, Quotes, Software
Steve Jobs was so taken by a typography class in college that no detail was ever irrelevant (cf. below). Apple ended up being one of those companies, like Trader Joe’s, Southwest Airlines and R.E.I., that keeps reminding customers that they are always...
by Pier Marton | Oct 3, 2011 | Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Future Tech, Human Rights, Politics, Spectacle, Women
An important documentary about contemporary China. Its website. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Oct 3, 2011 | Humor, Media, Politics, Spectacle
The BLR (Bad Lip Reading) series… EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Oct 1, 2011 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Eco, Health, History, Humor, Magyar, Popular, Women
[Update: Hedda Bolgar dies at 103] An earlier story by Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times. Appears in the documentary “The Beauty of Aging” (trailer below) EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Sep 26, 2011 | Antisemitism, Death, Ego, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars
As a Swedish diplomat in Hungary during WWII, he saved 20,000 Jews (among whom two of my aunts). In Haaretz (AP) Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews before vanishing into Soviet captivity, may have been alive after the official 1947 date of...