“The Organization of Black Designers” and other links…
Yes, in spite of the fact that according to a “Dogon to Digital” press release, “…out of approximately 10,000 industrial designers in America, less than 250 are African-American. There are 31 million African-Americans in the United States,” there is The Organization of Black Designers. They have a web site. I’m pleased and impressed.
“New Venture to Offer Small Publishers Digital Technology”
Julie Bosman: “David Steinberger, the president and chief executive of Perseus, said that by using Constellation independent publishers could make their books quickly available in several digital formats, allowing them to compete on the same technological level and with the same speed and flexibility as larger companies. Many publishing analysts see digital technology as one of the few major growth areas in the book industry.”
A Wikipedia.org Moment: Lake Tana
“Lake Tana …is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia.” This lake is vitally important because the Blue Nile is vitally important to the whole of Nile Valley civilization. “The flow of the Blue Nile reaches maximum volume in the rainy season (from June to September), when it supplies about two thirds of the water of the Nile proper. The Blue Nile, along with that of the Atbara River to the north, which also flows out of the Ethiopian highlands, were responsible for the annual Nile floods that contributed to the fertility of the Nile Valley and the consequent rise of ancient Egyptian civilization…”