Virgil’s epic the Aeneid, the founding story of the Roman Empire that began with a lieutenant’s escape from burning Troy, carrying his infant son, Ascanius, in his arms and his elderly father, Anchises on his back, as well as a bundle of household gods, wandering journey from Phrygia to Italy, battles with the Latins and eventual status as forbearer of the Roman people, presents a rich allegory, with some powerful, contemporary points of correspondence (for what it’s worth, as the latest tragedies are not, in the grander scheme of adventure and mythological, really all that legendary) with the current Greco-Roman marketplace.
Tuesday 8 November 2011
little golden book or mihi causas memora
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ท, ๐ฎ๐น, ๐น๐ท, ๐, economic policy
Sunday 6 November 2011
heresy or wash your mouth out with soap
Friday 4 November 2011
heisenberg or frisch gestrichen
The New York Times' technology blog has a post covering significant recent changes being released that redirect the traffic flow of the internet on the approach from the biggest and most ubiquitous internet search engine. After first changing its parameters a few months back so as to not so easily fall for website spam--pages that capitalize and snare hits with words popular searches but are hollow and without content, in addition to continual fine-tuning, parameters and rules in favour of freshness, timeliness, I suppose over other criteria like brute popularity or possibly definitiveness.
catagories: networking and blogging
Thursday 3 November 2011
flower drum song
Wednesday 2 November 2011
begrudge report
Quietly, and I am sure gratefully for some detractors to escape critical eyes and public debate, Palestine's ascension to the United Nations' UNESCO body (Gremium) has slipped away post-hast from the headlines and perhaps the public's attention.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐บ๐ธ, foreign policy, revolution
Tuesday 1 November 2011
demos
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ท, ๐, ๐, economic policy, networking and blogging