Sunday, April 04, 2004

Saul Steinberg 040404 Saul Steinberg ranks in my pantheon with James Thurber and, well really nobody else as a cartoonist. These days I have been thinking on his romance with Furtism, as I have some similar crazy love in my heart. The following comes from a web site dedicated to Saul ... He was born in Romania in 1914. He later studied in the Politecnico in Milan as an architecture student, graduating in 1940. During the 1930s, Steinberg applied this lesson to the cartoons he began publishing in Milan for the satirical biweekly Bertoldo. By 1940, Steinberg’s drawings were appearing in Life magazine and Harper’s Bazaar. That same year, the anti-Jewish racial laws in Fascist Italy forced him to flee to America. While in Santo Domingo in 1941 awaiting an entry visa, he started publishing regularly in The New Yorker. Unrelated Vannevar Bush - Internet Pioneers site Review: Endless frontier on Amazon.com Robot in every home - the Register, Apr 4, 2004 Reviewed A History of Soviet Cybernetics -amazon.com Quantum Channel Capacities -Sci, Mar 9, 2004 [fee req] Literary review featues Jeff Demark - NorthcoastJo White Stripes downloads, including Dylan & Jack, Mar. 17 whitestripes.net Saul Steinberg on my mind. Looking back on Futurism. Macs discover new life in sciences Although the Apple Mac platform was long ago counted out by a lot of corporate IT managers, it has morphed and continues to find adherents -- the graphic arts in particular have persisted as a major stronghold. And the Mac platform may even be thriving again in the science sector where it once held some dominance on the desktop. At last week's Bio-IT World Conference + Expo in Boston, Apple representatives touted recent success in life science labs. Bud Tribble, Apple's vice president of software technology, said the company estimates that 35% of life scientists now use the Mac. -adtmag.c0m 8:58:09 PM    comment []

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