Thirteen seconds. Dozens of bullets. One explosive photo.

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Forget for a moment that the picture is among the most famous in US history, or that the photographer—a 21-year-old…

The Nth Degree (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 4, Episode 19) Barclay Evolves

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Rewatching ST:TNG Engineering schlub Lt. Barclay gets zapped by this week’s Space Thing, which makes him smart, charming... and also…

In April, 2001 I was blogging about interactive fiction, Roget’s Thesaurus, John Lennon, HTML Frames, and C.S. Lewis

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A student newspaper article about interactive fiction (quoting Emily Short and me) Blaming Roget's Thesaurus Finding the URL of a…

Carolyn Jerz featured on Tap Titans Today

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I love watching my daughter perform. Here she is doing some short tap routines. The last two also incorporate her…

Is Babylon 5 secretly the most influential TV show of the past 25 years?

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When my wife and I were grad students in Toronto, my sister would fill up VHS tapes with episodes of…

Why Can’t My New Employees Write? | Just Visiting

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We’re talking about elite students here landing jobs in highly desirable firms. These are Deresiewicz’s “Excellent Sheep.” We can presume…

Seton Hill Hogwarts Dinner

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What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?

All those fights over late-ar­riv­ing mail bal­lots were much ado about very lit­tle

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Just in case you haven't been thinking lately about the passionate accusations of massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential…