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I'm Not So Sure About That

Archiving the mountains of digitalized cultural heritage we have amassed for the future is paramount.

Professor Tadahiro Kuroda of Tokyo's Keio University, on the "Digital Rosetta Stone" of the The World Digital Library (WDLP).

Naturism

Technology is the knack of arranging the world so that we don't experience it.

Max Frisch

My Death is Bigger Than Your Death

...Farrah Fawcett, who, in immediately being wiped from the bulletins by a bigger death, joins a melancholy sub-set including the author Aldous Huxley, who suffered the misfortune of dying at the same time that John F Kennedy was assassinated.

Mark Lawson
"Chronicle of a Death Oversold"
guardian.co.uk 6/27/09