Existential Backpack

I have been a Backpack user for a while, along with Basecamp and Highrise. While Backpack was my first 37Signals web app, I quickly graduated to the feature-rich and seemingly more useful Basecamp and Highrise, and left my Backpack pages languishing in ignominy. Granted, I mostly use Basecamp and Highrise at work and for other professional endeavors, for which they both are perfectly suited. I didn’t seem to have much of a need for the ‘personal’ nature of Backpack.

Recently the guys over at 37Signals have given backpack a slew of upgrades and new features so I have decided to dive back into Backpack and give it another go.

Hubert Dreyfus and Existentialism in Film and Literature course

Hubert Dreyfus’s excellent course, “Existentialism in Film and Literature” is up again for another go-round on UC Berkeley’s iTunes U site. I listened and read my way through this course the last time around in 2006 and I’m going to again. Professor Dreyfus is a bit scatter-brained at times, but aren’t all the best college professors just a bit off the wall?

You can subscribe to the course here

note: The link above will open your iTunes. You need to have iTunes to view iTunes U sites, just like the iTunes Music Store