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Right now in St Paul. That’s above zero, not below.

Everything is Marketable

Couldn’t help but think of the story of the Tower of Babel this morning reading this NYT article about the world’s digital library. Makes me want to resist it, just on principle. But then, that wasn’t my first impulse. My first impulse was: how could I search it? So I’ll have to resist myself as well.

Fridays I try and surf a little to see what I’ve been missing the rest of the week. Seems I’ve been missing Google’s project page for more than a week…

Today is Eugene McCarthy’s 90th birthday. It’s also my 34th birthday. MPR broadcast a retrospective on McCarthy’s life today on my midday commute to my accountant’s office. Death, taxes, birthdays, politics, and two men named Eugene (that’s what the E in pek stands for). I found the stories about the Vietnam vets’ interactions with McCarthy to be especially moving.