I Had A Shoggoth

Thanks for the silly, wonderful suggestion, Josh. Similar:Inside the utopian, brick-loving world of LEGO's adult fandomI used to enjoy buying my kids a $4 set …AestheticsMr. Chen Goes to WuhanA Chinese media personality with over ha…CultureRichard Halloran / Owns Home Computer.“Engineers now predict the day will come…AmusingSecond Sight (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 9)…

Global Warming: A Tale of Two Writers

While the Church gets a lot of guff for its skeptical responses to Galileo’s astronomical findings, some Jesuit astronomers not only listened to his ideas but repeated his observations, and some university faculty members flatly refused to look through a telescope. Simplistic representations of scientific issues, with heroes and villains, make good stories, but rarely…

Recent Teaching

Spring 2009 LA101: Seminar in Thinking & Writing EL200: Media Lab & Setonian EL267: American Literature 1915-Present EL312: Literary Criticism Fall, 2008 LA100: Basic Composition EL200: Media Lab & Advising of The Setonian EL236: Writing for the Internet EL405: Mew Media Projects Spring, 2008 EL150: Intro to Literary Study EL200: Media Lab & Advising of…

Classic Teaching

Fall, 2006 LA 100: Freshman Composition EL 236: Writing for the Internet EL 405: New Media Projects EL200 & Advising of The Setonian Spring, 2006 EL 150: Intro to Literary Study EL 250: Videogaming Culture and Theory EL 267: American Literature, 1915-Present Advising of The Setonian Fall, 2005 EL 266: American Literature, 1800-1915 EL 227:…

Austenbook

Austenbook (Pride and Prejudice, as it would appear if all the characters interacted on Facebook.) Similar:Wikipedia:VisualEditor – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWikipedia is testing a visual editor, in…Cyberculture#MyNYPD Hashtag Promptly HijackedSomeone is regretting this PR move. …Current_EventsTexas School Censors All Of ‘Huck Finn’ Except The N-Words (Satire from The Onion)Is it only a matter of time…

The story of a literary hoax; or, how Elizabeth Pepys came to be quoted on "turds that do fly"

A wonderful post by Whitney Anne Trettien, who examines the reception of a feminist spoof of Pepys famous diary, in order to explore the strange human desire to trust those who reveal shameful private failures. (That is, unless her whole blog is just another learned example of a literary spoof, and I’m being too trusting…

A WELL HOUSE FOR A LARGE SPRING

I was digging through my archives and came across this e-mail from caver and author Roger Brucker, responding to my request for anything he might remember about the well house — described so vaguely in Will Crowther’s 1976 game “Colossal Cave Adventure,” but such a real-seeming place. The wellhouse was one of a series of…

The day the music died

A nicely done feature on the closure of the last player-piano roll manufacturer. One machine dates back to the 1880s when it was used to make shoes, and for the past 100 years has made the tabs with brass eyelets used to hook the roll into a piano. There are also aging machines to perforate…

File:ADVENT — Will Crowther's original version.png – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gaah! Is there anyone out there who’s experienced with Wikipedia templates, who can help me resolve this mess? I uploaded a screenshot of Will Crowther’s original Colossal Cave Adventure (freeware, c. 1976), but the Wikipedia copyright-protection policies are written for current programs (where the visuals are much more important). Licensing This is a screenshot of…