Today is National Medal of Honor Day. This year, it happens to also be Good Friday, which seems especially appropriate, given Jesus’ words the night before his crucifixion: “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life…
Tag: Letters
3 Reasons Why Typewriters Seduce Us
They are a thing of the past, and yet, we can’t seem to let them go. Tom Hanks recently released a typewriter app, and the clash between old and new technologies got me thinking about why we bother with the clunky machines anymore. (I gave my last typewriter, my beloved Selectric, to a typewriter repairman…
Dig some digital archaeology
The Andy Warhol Museum recently announced that it had recovered some digital files of Warhol’s art, originally created on an Amiga console in 1985. (Here’s the press release, and a blog post about the find.) Warhol Museum press release Washington Post blog about Warhol find While the Warhol archaeology was most likely conducted in an…
Letters from the past
What if we could hear, first-hand, what it was like to be on a ship in Pearl Harbor during the Japanese raid on December 7th, 1941? What if one of your family-members had an eye-witness story about the November, 2004 Battle of Fallujah in their email? Are you a U.S. veteran with a stack of…