Living in the information age has most of us doing mental juggling routines as a matter of course. Are we more distracted and fragmented? Or is this good exercise for us? 

Sales of e-books increase, sales of physical books decrease. How do comics adapt? Like this...

Ubuntu is a free, open source operating system for your computer. It's an ethos. And a very large collaborative project. It also fosters community.

Sound Opinions is a Chicago based public radio rock n roll talk show. 

Beams and Struts launched one year ago. Here are a few reflections from one Beams contributor and editor on what a person learns from a year of doing these things.

The Harry Potter books. The Da Vinci Code. The Twilight series. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and sequels. In the age of instant messages, Facebook, tweets, texting, how did these thick genre novels by unknown writers reach people on such an unprecedented scale?

I've long wondered how the people who live to spout shit and stir up blockheaded arguments in the comments sections of social media find the time to do what they do, much less the energy. Here's an answer to explain at least some of them: it's their job.

Living in the information age has most of us doing mental juggling routines as a matter of course. Can we handle it? Are we getting more distracted and fragmented? Or is this good exercise for us? Have we long had an underfed capacity for complexity that’s only now being regularly fertilized?

So much of what we take for granted in everyday life now would seem amazing, or incomprehensible a very short time ago. 

At the Apple store you actually do see names of all ethnicities, as well as tattoos, lobe-expanding ear-rings and hats.