It: nailed. xkcd: Headlines. Similar:The Jem'Hadar (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 26) Sisko father-son bonding vaca… Rewatching ST:DS9 Sisko is unimpr…JusticeOld English Has a Serious Image ProblemThis fall I will be teaching Shakespeare…AcademiaThe Muse #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 21) Jake meets his muse; pregnant runaw…Rewatching ST:DS9 From his spot on the …MediaWilliam…
…she’s pretending to be “Spock in a Tree on Omicron Ceti III.” Similar:An Excerpt from Mechanisms [2]: 'Professor RAMAC'Among the attractions at the 1958 World’…Books5 Fun Ways to Help Your Kids Learn Math OnlineMy son has finally found a math textbook…CybercultureHeart of Glory (TNG Rewatch, Season 1 Episode 20)Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…MediaTweaking yesterday's…
The observation car Pearl sings of her love for Rusty, in the “Like ‘Cats’ but with Trains” show “Starlight Express.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma4FusuIgSM By the way, that’s a Star Wars Stormtrooper outfit, with pink accents added by my wife. Post by Stage Right. Similar:Rediscovering Infocom Games With My Kids Call it the Familyhood of the Tr…CybercultureLove…
Back in my grad school days, I was called a “run-of-the-mill programmer” by a brilliant IT genius. For a guy whose only computer coursework consists of a Pascal class in high school (“taught” by a math teacher who didn’t know the language, and checked my answers against those in the teacher’s manual), I still consider…
King Henry rallies his troops just before the decisive Battle of Agincourt. From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,…
RT @textfiles: Hi internet. In another few minutes I go onstage to point everyone to archive.org/details/histor… and hopefully computer history … Similar:Parallel Structure vs. Faulty ParallelismI just touched up a handout on Parallel …Humanities10 Rules of Internet – Anil DashA very useful, concise summary of web-en…BusinessMaybe I'll just delete these QUARTER OF A MILLION spam…
Not my item, but the pathos caught my eye. Similar:John Speed’s 1611 map of #medievalyork features a “scale of paces.” My #unity3d placeholde…AestheticsAnd yes, that's her picture in the program (from the PPT Shakespeare contest).At PPT’s The Diary of Anne Frank. …CultureWitness Accounts in Midtown Hammer Attack Show the Power of False Memory Two people who…
Seriously: What is Amazon? A retail company? A media company? A logistics machine? The mystery of its strategy is deepened by two factors. First is the company’s communications department, which famously excels at not communicating. Three requests to speak with Amazon officials for this article were delayed and, inevitably, declined. This moves discussions of the…
Tween: “My friends say Bieber’s a jerk now.” Me: “It’s hard when your idols fall.” Tween: “That’s why I don’t have any. Except for you.” Similar:Hello, there, mini.Hello, there, mini. Let’s restore you fr…TweetsAnd the girl has succeeded in getting me to wear t…And the girl has succeeded in getting me…TweetsMy Minecraft-obsessed tween made this…
A new Emily Dickinson archive is online. Here is the opening of one of her most famous poems. Reading View for Fascicle 23. Similar:In 2019, I have a college student who annotates readings like this!I asked students in my online “Dystopia …AcademiaPICT Classic Theatre brings The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll to the airwavesI’m proud…
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Have you heard the story about the lady who spilled coffee on herself and won millions of dollars from McDonald’s? Have you looked up the details on the story, or do you just know the story as a TV show punch line? Stella became a symbol for frivolous lawsuits and fodder for talk show hosts,…
Reporters have been sometimes fired for willful misconduct, such as repeated instances of plagiarism or fabrication. Reporters who’ve suffered that fate, such as the New York Times’ Jayson Blair and The Washington Post’s Janet Cooke, were guilty of gross journalistic malpractice. But firing a reporter over an unintentional mistake is “extremely rare,” said Scott Maier,…
I’m getting ready to introduce my freshman writing students to college-level research, so I found it helpful to read this brief introduction to the internal problems Wikipedia creates for itself. When a major news event takes place, such as the Boston Marathon bombings, complex, widely sourced entries spring up within hours and evolve by the…
“Does size matter?” — student journalist, making a person-on-the street video interview about the new iPad. Similar:I asked my geekling whether she was ready for bed…I asked my #geekling whether she was rea…AmusingI'm no longer surprised, but still want to document.This is really noteworthy. Today the Pre…Current_EventsHabits for happiness: tips for looking on the bright…
RT @joningold: Thing is, the freedom of the parser is a sham – not because it *doesn’t* understand everything but because no-one plays as t… Similar:I asked my geekling whether she was ready for bed…I asked my #geekling whether she was rea…AmusingShe doesn't have keys or a phone or an ID. Why does my tween…
In the Nightly Noodle Monthly, former North Adams Transcript journalist Isaac Avilucea posts this passage, which he says was removed from a sports feature that got him fired. But there’s a reason she’s not at MountGreylock anymore, choosing to transfer to a school with somewhat inferior academics and athletics. Part of it has to do with the stuffy social atmosphere that…
I just did the thing where you look everywhere for your glasses but you can’t find them because you are already wearing them. Similar:She doesn't have keys or a phone or an ID. Why does my tween need a purse?To stash her Lemonheads and Smarties. ht…AmusingAnd the girl has succeeded in getting me to wear…
Inside Higher Ed Similar:How the Midwest went from the idealized to the deridedWhile Pittsburgh has become more metropo…AcademiaI Was Fired for Making Fun of Trump After 25 years as the editorial cartoo…CultureSocrates envisaged a time when we would forget how to remember.From Daisy Dunn’s review of Puchner’s Th…BooksA Simple Investigation #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5,…
I can’t quite understand a world in which people will pay $4 for a cup of coffee… So I have no particular interest in coffee-shop culture, but the unrelenting advance of automation is worth noting. But note the word “could” in the headline. The Briggo coffee kiosk knows how to make a perfect coffee because…