I’m going to have the dullest—or at least the strangest—2005 reading list if I keep this up, but this is what happens during research when there’s little time for pleasure reading. I just finished reading the 2001 Yale University Department of Anthropology dissertation of my friend and colleague, Linda Angst. Don’t get me wrong—it’s not [...]

Yesterday was a Daddy-Daughter lunch-and-theater date. I took Safa to Bongo Java for a grilled cheese sandwich and then we walked across the street to Belmont University where the Nashville Ballet was doing a children’s production of “Tennessee Jack and the Kudzu Vine” which, as you can guess, was a localized version of Jack [...]

To all those naysayers who wrote off Apple Computer years ago as dead and irrelevant—and to all those Windows users (aka slaves to Bill Gates’ crappy virus-magnet crash-prone software)—take note that Apple was voted the world’s top brand in 2004. Granted, the brand recognition was no doubt pumped up by the success of the iPod, [...]