Steve Jobs to 2005 graduates: 'Stay hungry, stay foolish'

Steve Jobs to 2005 graduates: 'Stay hungry, stay foolish'

This is the 1984 Macintosh Computer SuperBowl ad where it all began.

1984 Macintosh review in Byte Magazine Video of Jobs introducing the Macintosh in 1984

"Can't Forget the Motor City"

"Can't Forget the Motor City"
By PAUL CLEMENS
NYTimes Magazine August 28, 2005

Springsteen Makes the Academic Grade
NYTimes
August 31, 2005

The Boss Bibliography
By A. O. SCOTT
Bruce Springsteen's evolving career inspires a spate of new books by critics, psychiatrists and historians.
SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW
NYTimes
July 3, 2005

Bob Dylan on PBS

Bob Dylan No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
A Martin Scorsese Picture

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
"The editors of the American Heritage dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know."

Oxford English Dictionary

Flashcards: The world's largest library of printable flash cards

Flashcards: The world's largest library of printable flash cards

Steinbeck Country

Steinbeck Country

RTA Bus Card Project

RTA Bus Card Project 2004 sponsored by Poets' and Writers' League of Greater Cleveland

all my life for sale

all my life for sale

The Beat Page

The Beat Page

Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

John Irving

Kiterunner

Soda Policy for Schools

Critics Say Soda Policy for Schools Lacks Teeth

50 FACTS SHOW WHY WE MUST CHANGE WORLD

50 FACTS SHOW WHY WE MUST CHANGE WORLD By Jessica Williams

Pew Internet & American Life Project

Pew Internet & American Life Project

For teens, Internet is fact of life
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Martha Irvine
Associated Press

Flak Magazine Review of Bookmark Now

Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times
Edited by Kevin Smokler


Kevin Smokler opens his introduction to this collection of essays by making reference to the National Endowment for the Arts' much-discussed 2004 study, 'Reading at Risk.' The study made headlines last summer for reporting a number of worrying trends that spanned the demographic spectrum. Not surprisingly, people of all ages and classes, from all corners of the nation, are reading less, buying fewer books and spending more time on other media. The percentage of the population that had, over the course of the entire year, read at least one work of 'literature' (defined broadly enough to include Danielle Steel and 'The Da Vinci Code') fell below the bellwether figure of 50 percent for the first time in the study's history. Even more worrying was a statistic suggesting that the greatest rate of decline in reading was that between ages 18 and 24. The barbarians were close at hand. Flak Magazine 5.31.05

Bob Dylan - Eastlake, Ohio

Eastlake, Ohio
Classic Park
June 26, 2005

Tombstone Blues
Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
God Knows
Visions Of Johanna
Cry A While
Shooting Star
Highway 61 Revisited
Tryin' To Get To Heaven
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
Floater (Too Much To Ask)
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Summer Days

Encore
The Times They Are A-Changin'
All Along The Watchtower

Guitar - An American Life

Tim Brookes tells dual histories - the story of the guitar as an American instrument and the story of the construction of his own custom instrument at Running Dog Guitars.
I was half way through when I heard about Reservation Blues with its Robert Johnson connection, so now I'm back into it.

Sherman Alexie

I finished this book this morning. Great read about Robert Johnson arriving at a Spokane Indian reservation and the inspiration he finds and leaves there. Sherman Alexie also wrote the screen play for the film Smoke Signals.
Native American Authors: Sherman Alexie
Reservation Blues-Home-Seattle University

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Freakonomics Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?

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