“The only way forward out of this mess is to proceed in two phases, the first of which is to bring primary sources themselves online in a way that gives scholars easy and totally open access to high-resolution, multi-spectral images.… More recently, for instance, there’s The Rare Book Room, a digital archiving labor that now includes some 400 manuscripts photographed at resolutions as high as 200MB per page…. The second phase—and this is critical—is to offer some kind of open mechanism for letting scholars (and later, the interested public) attach metadata and conversation to the different layers (raw image, color-corrected image, multi-spectral image, transliteration, transcription) of the online text. The main tool that I’m aware of that’s explicitly designed to enable a community to mark up a document in something like the manner that will be needed is Bobby Fishkin’s ReframeIt, but there may be others that work similarly….

“Taken together, these studies demonstrate that popular stereotypes of marijuana users are unfair and untrue. While it’s definitely not a good idea to perform a cognitively demanding task (such as driving!) while stoned, smoking a joint probably also won’t lead to any measurable long-term deficits. “

Starring a spaced-out Sonny Bono