[A]academic training can sometimes compete with this sense of “adventure” by giving you detailed maps to the treasure, complete with complex keys and dotted lines. I find books now by following footnotes more often than I do by browsing shelves. —Caleb McDaniel —Used book stores (Mode for Caleb) Similar:Scientists should be goggled and in the lab,…
More and more, we Americans like to watch (and not to do). In fact watching is our ultimate addiction. My students were the progeny of two hundred available cable channels and omnipresent Blockbuster outlets. They grew up with their noses pressed against the window of that second spectral world that spins parallel to our own,…
The games begin: you can now download entries in the 2004 Interactive Fiction Competition. —Nick Montfort —IF Comp 2004 Unleashed (Grand Text Auto) Similar:This Is Not a Book: Thomas Jefferson & Apple's App StoreHumanities professors from the Universit…AcademiaMore Americans now see the media’s influence growing compared with a year agoAmericans’ views about the influence of …CultureMy…
Emerson and Thoreau on Laundry Night (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) It’s past midnight and I can’t sleep. In a few days, I’ll be teaching Emerson’s “Self Reliance” and Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.” With two small children in the house, an the usual full roster of “quality time” activities scheduled this weekend, I know I won’t get any work…