You may have noticed that there is a brand new Pinterest feed in the Sidebar of this very page (every page, really). To be honest, I’ve never had any idea what Pinterest is, what it is for, or why someone would use it. Recently, however, I was speaking to a friend of mine and we were discussing some of the current movies that address the actual concerns we are starting to have about such things as dependence on technology and artificial intelligence (for example, the currently-in-theaters Ex Machina, and 2013’s Her), and comparing them to classics such as 2001 and TRON, and I said it would be nice to have a place on the site that could serve as an index for that sort of thing, where students could get more information if they were so inclined, but wasn’t just some static page or list of links.

It was actually his wife’s suggestion via him, but they suggested I try cataloging them using Pinterest, a digital pinboard. I didn’t know there were *analog* pinboards! Anyway, they kind-of sort-of explained it to me, saying it would be perfect for what I had described, and that she used it to keep ideas for home-improvement projects or something like that, I don’t know, but they both said it was very useful.