"no light on the western shore / no sign of the ships at anchor / no sound but the roaring winds"

At work, our cubicles come in two mirror-image layouts. After over four years in this building of always working in a left-handed model, I've been moved into a right-handed one. A month in, and I'm STILL turning the wrong direction to reach for some things.

A depressing rundown: Edging Toward the Fully Licensed World. (via)

And while we're on that, why meritocracies convert over time to oligarchies. Anyone who thinks that college admissions testing is equal oportunity has never looked at the price of tutoring for admissions testing. (via)

"To the One Who is Reading Me" by Jorge Luis Borges.

What guide books to the USA say that is striking to a native. FWIW, the advice cited is largely correct in my experience (full disclosure: also a native). (via)

"Garden of Your Mind," a Mister Rogers remix from the peoples behind Symphony of Science. (via)

---L.