Passing quietly into history
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Progress is measured in different ways. Often it is measured by bold headlines and loud pronouncements. This past week, it has been measured quietly.
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It might be viewed as a contradiction in terms to suggest that Australia&#39;s Lleyton Hewitt, the 2001 US Open champion, was moving quietly along.
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The British journalist Jeremy Paxman leads the reader on an entertaining tour through Europeâs royalty, without being terribly new or revealing.
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Thereâs a lot going on under the surface of âFeel the Noise,â far more than its indefensibly generic title suggests.
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This will probably be the last major Passages story, but as  the capstone of a history spanning over a billion years it will be told  in five parts.    Previous Episodes:      Passages in the Void  The Passage Home  Rite of Passage (optional side story)  Mortal Passage      This story:      Revelation One: The Borden Homeworld  Revelation Two: The Makers of the Borden  Revelation Three: The Paleobringer  Revelation Four: The Arc of the Aeon  Revelation Five: The Queen of the Galaxy
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AFTER the hullabaloo for last year's 25th anniversary of John Paul II's election as Pope, the weekend celebration of his 26th anniversary was a relatively quiet affair.
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All is not quiet on the speech front.
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Writer Witold Rybczynski's books reveal that the forward-looking march of progress can often use a reality check from history.
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Deftly paced, modestly proportioned, âPoussin and Natureâ at the Metropolitan Museum is the quietest, most intimate-feeling major exhibition in town.
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Michael Palin turns his wandering eye to the life and locales of Ernest Hemingway, moving between past and present in the places that meant so much to the author.
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By Sarah Watson, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb.
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The Taj Mahal, the monument to loss and love, celebrated its 350th birthday quietly yesterday amid fears that too much noise might damage its marble minarets.
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"Magic Seeds," V.S. Naipaul's latest and possibly last book, is a quiet and introspective account of one man's drift through a world of revolution and social decay.
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The top spots offering a peek into the past.
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I just woke up in Paris, it's 5:34AM here, but back in California, it still never ceases to amaze me, the day hasn't yet flipped. You guys haven't even gone to bed yet! Now that's amazing to me. What perseverence! Keep up the good work everybody.  I just started posting a couple of twits that really should be a blog post, so let's get started. First at some point, after a suitable period of mourning, I'd like to rasie the issue of what's to happen with Marc Orchant's web presence. Which of course is a way of focusing attention on all of our web presences.  None of us like to think of it, but truth is none of us are going to live forever. Yet if you read this, it's likely that you're creating a digital body that can and imho should continue to exist even after your physical body stops existing. People are humble, no one wants to come out and say their work has any value that's worth preserving past their death, but come on, we know that's not true. If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be writing on the web. As would Hemingway or Faulkner, Vonnegut or Mailer, John Lennon or Dylan Thomas, Carl Sandberg or Robert Frost. Mozart, Bach and Beethoven. You think there isn't any great literature out there on the web? I wouldn't be so sure about that. What if there is? And what if a baby born today becomes a great creative force? Or what if there's a social disaster like the Holocaust? Did you know that there are preserved diaries from pre-revolutionary America? Writings of ordinary people can be of enormous help to historians. And if we believe in citizen journalism (I do) why not citizen historians? Shouldn't we be thinking out into the future? We should! With all possible humility, I'd like to tell you that a few days after I die my entire web presence will likely disappear. My servers require some attention from me from time to time. The first time that happens, poof, there goes 10-plus years of Scripting News, and all the docs for the OPML Editor and the OPML spec, the XML-RPC site, to name just a few. Anyway, within a couple of months it will all certainly disappear, unless someone pays my hosting and DSL bills. Maybe someone will, but isn't it ridiculous that that's what it depends on? And when my sites disappear so will my uncle's. He died in 2003. His site is still accessible because I keep it that way. When I die, who will will take over for me? I'm sure the world will survive without his writing, but why? If I love the memory of my uncle, and I do, what can I do to reserve a place for him in the archive of the future. It seems such a small thing, but it's most of what remains of his life.  And what of academics, Nobel Laureates and others? I know for a fact that a great university (Harvard) has no plan to protect their web-based work after they pass. It's so ironic that the web offers an archival solution for non-digital work, yet the web information is more fragile than the physical stuff. Preserving our digital heritage is going to require some foresight, some planning, but it seems possible and we surely can do much better. Marc's fate awaits us all. While we're still alive, there's still time to solve this problem. When we're gone, it will be too late. Part of his legacy can be that he helped focus us on this issue, and his life work could be a great test case. Do we want to see his work preserved? And if so, how will it be done? PS: The RSS 2.0 site will likely persist, because I gave it to Berkman, and then used it as a test case to learn about future-safing. It seems likely to continue to exist, knock wood, praise Murphy, as long as Harvard exists.
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While growing up on "the wrong side" of the wall  in Soviet-controlled East Berlin,    Wolfgang Thierse  was shushed into absolute silence when his father strained to listen to jammed broadcasts of parliamentary debates in West Germany. Thierse dreamed one day of directing such discussions himself.
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TEHRAN -- A new movement of passive resistance is quietly sweeping young people in Iran, a response both to the reform movement's failure to introduce political and economic change and conservatives' control over who can run for office, according to Iranian student leaders and political analysts.