on DevonThink and history research (I)

If you’re dropping by from the mothership, hi! I’m Rachel. I write now and then about history, academia, research tech and bookporn. Hit the RSS if you’re into any of that, I’d probably like to know you — R. L. 01.09.2011 As some of you know, I am a loyal devotee of DevonThink, and was [...]

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links (the authoritarianism edition)

  Jeffrey Wasserstrom has a lovely piece on China which examines a pleasure-driven versus fear-driven authoritarianism, embodied respectively by the distinction between Brave New World and 1984, and creatively summarized in this comic by Stuart McMillen. I’ve always been more familiar with and symapthetic to Orwell’s writing and creative vision than Huxley’s, so in thinking [...]

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The Oceans Curated: A review of ‘Shipwrecked’ at the Singapore ArtScience Museum

First posted at HNN. I was back in Singapore a little while ago, and took the opportunity to revisit an old obsession of mine. Some of you may recall that two years ago, I previewed a marvellous collection of Tang treasure from a shipwreck found near Belitung, an island off the coast of Indonesia. I was [...]

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