the last generation meme

We are the last generation that learnt to play in the Streets and the first to play Video Games, see Cartoons in Color and went to amusement Parks. We were the last to record Radio Songs on Cassettes and we are the Pioneers of Walkmans and Chatrooms. ... We learned how to program the VCR before anyone else, play with the Atari and Super Nintendo, and believed the Internet would be a free World, all on a 56k Modem. Travelled in Cars without seatbelts or air-bags & lived without cell phones. Rode the bikes down the Road without brakes. We never had phones but still kept in touch. We did not have Playstations, 99 TV Channels, Flat Screens, Surround Sound, MP3s, iPods, Computers or broadband....

Black Shoals Planetarium

A remarkable media project that interprets the Black Scholes financial formula, a mathematical formula for trading and hedging derivatives, into a real time projection based on stock market activity. Black Shoals

Women and the MFA

This is a short NPR piece about the numbers of women in MFA programs in comparison to the numbers represented by galleries. That seems negative, but maybe women are making other kinds of choices about how to disseminate their work? Or is there subtle discrimination. What do you think? Thanks HD for the tip. Here is the link.