Canned Dragons is a weblog about faith, noise and technology, written by Robert.
"For the memory can both provoke the dragon and the memory can also subdue him."
~ St. John Chrysostom
The Mouse House Redux
Changes to Disney World have me rethinking making any future plans to visit the park.
A Different Perspective
Another account of Len Riggio, the longtime head of Barnes & Noble.
Dell Charm
PC manufacturers keep their models low profile to ensure it’s harder to find problematic patterns among them.
The Revenge of Googie
Anna Kodé has a piece in the New York Times (gift article) about the early Space Age Googie style of architecture. The article is filled with eye candy and visual delights from the style, some prominent artifacts of which were still around when I was young. It brings a tremendous
The Spotify Problem
Brandon Lucas Green writes about Spotify from an indie musician’s perspective and his piece contains some useful insights. Green points out that the service is a much better value proposition for musicians who are already popular and on major labels. Artists living in a late-stage capitalist society (ie. basically
Analogue Grand Diary
Maybe it’s early to be making New Year’s resolutions, or perhaps you don’t even believe in setting stretch goals just because the calendar changes. It seems that many have eschewed this once formerly popular habit. I confess that I have waxed and waned in my observance of
The Man Who Would Be King
One of my all-time favorite films is John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King. I was first introduced to the movie adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling short story from 1888 by my English teacher in my senior year of high school. Kipling’s novel encapsulates some of the
