Tag Archives: Marshall McLuhan

Quote o’ the Day (Marshall McLuhan Edition)

Posted on September 1, 2012 by

From yesterday’s New York Times: Border Crossing Identity Crisis ‘Oh, Canada’ Exhibition at Mass MoCA NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — As Marshall McLuhan once wrote about his homeland, “Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without … Continue reading →

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The Hardworking Staff Totally Wants This For Christmas

Posted on July 26, 2012 by

Via our ex(cellent)-graduate assistant Jeff Howanek, the USB typewriter: A New Lease On Type Think back, do you remember the last time you used a typewriter? Do you recall the resonant click clack of the keys as you plugged in … Continue reading →

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Who Is Taylor Wells?

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

So out of the blue this pops up in the top lefthand corner of Page One of Friday’s Boston Herald: Huh? Do we know a Wells at the Herald? It’s clearly not Jonathan Wells, former ace reporter for the feisty … Continue reading →

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How Steve Jobs Changed My Life

Posted on October 6, 2011 by

There are umpteen million stories in the Mac-ed City. This has been one of them: I bought a Mac SE in 1989. It cost, as I recall, $3000 (which was real money at the time) and had slightly more computing … Continue reading →

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James Carroll Channels Marshall McLuhan

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

Author and Boston Globe columnist James Carroll (who’s not me, despite widespread local confusion over the past two decades) had a terrific piece on Monday about the difference between analog and digital clocks. Time’s face, time’s digits OUR TWO kinds … Continue reading →

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The New Republic Gets McLuhan Wrong

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

From John McWhorter’s piece in the February 3rd edition of The New Republic: Fighting Words IN THE WAKE OF the tragedy in Tucson, numerous commentators have called for increased policing of inflammatory language. Not literal policing, of course; what these commentators … Continue reading →

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