“Twice upon a time there lived a boy named Jack in the twoderful land of Califivenia.” Read a sample of the late comedian Victor Borge’s inflationary language. Richard Lederer. Similar:Drumming Kid Is Epic. That Is All.https://youtu.be/MRvHI8tgx8A AestheticsInternet Explorer and Murder Rates: More Fun with Causation and Correlation IE.png – mlkshk.AmusingEmily Dickinson Manuscript for "The Chariot"A…
Nearly 20 years after giving up on it, a grown man finds a walkthrough for the classic text game, “Savage Island.” James Lileks revels in computer nostalgia. Similar:The overlooked masterpieces of 1922In literature the response to the challe…BooksDay of Dennis Jerz » Today, a Hand-written Letter about a Stack of Books Trumped a Databas…My first…
“Typically, when project managers observe their design undergoing a usability test, their initial reaction is: Where did you find such stupid users? Jakob Nielsen —Are Users Stupid? Similar:How Fake News Happens: It's simple! A governor tweets a Fox News graphic from a story that…How dare President Biden be invoked by a…CultureThe Period, Our Simplest Punctuation…
A blurb is a short paragraph that previews what’s on the other end of a link. You’re reading a blurb now. If it helps you decide whether you should click the link, then it has done its job. Dennis G. Jerz —Blurbs: How to write them for your web pages Similar:One Does Not Simply: An…
may be crappy, but its CEO claims to have patented the search engine. Kieren McCarthy.AltaVista Similar:Is Google Making Us Stupid?Nicholas Carr, in The Atlantic: As the …BooksChapbooks — the latest assignment in my “History and Future of the Book” class.Students have already done a 400-word sp…AcademiaMultimodal Composing, Sketchnotes, and Idea GenerationUsing the mixed media of…
One example of metacontent: “People often pass around news articles via e-mail. Some even do it compulsively, in part because it’s so easy…” NY Times (registration required) Similar:Why We Forget Most of the Books We ReadIt was pleasurable to encounter a famili…BooksThe Tyranny of Now (Appreciation of Harold Innis)As a grad student at the University…
Once again, The Onion gets it right. Clinton Not Expecting To Collect White House Security Deposit Surveying the White House’s walls and bathroom fixtures in preparation for move-out, President Clinton said Monday that he expects to forfeit his security deposit. “It’s just not worth it,” Clinton said. “I’d rather lose the $575 than have to…
“Once we accept something as ‘good,’ we often persist in doing it even when the result is clearly bad, while telling ourselves that we just haven’t done enough of it. We are subject to a defect of reason…” Dave Kopel —Who Killed George Washington? (National Review) Similar:Witness Accounts in Midtown Hammer Attack Show the Power of…
Fascinating account of DirectTV’s war against hackers. Slashdot. Similar:Teachers finding games give a leg up on learningThanks for the link, Dana. Experts sa…CultureAs Mount St. Mary’s Offers to Reinstate 2 Professors, Faculty Demands President QuitThe president of Mount St. Mary’s Univer…AcademiaThomas Jefferson on "newspapers without government" vs "government without newspapers"Those darn founders with their darned…
, a Notre Dame football player in the ’60s, argues that “The gap between college sports and the fundamental mission of higher education has widened significantly since that time.” Allen L. Sack Similar:So, What's in It for Me?All in all, I enjoy my job very much, an…AcademiaU.S.S. Requin — Extended Tour of the Cold War Submarine…
The lessons I learned in just over an hour showed me how poor most Websites are and just how easy it would be for companies to perform their own usability tests to fix a lot of the problems.–David Lidsky, Healing the Web Update: Dec 2014. I originally blogged the above back in 2001. Lidsky’s brief article, written as the…
Top 10 Tips: Write a meaningful subject line; keep the message short and readable; avoid attachments; identify yourself; don’t flame (and more). Jessica Bauer. —Writing Effective E-Mail Similar:The U.S. government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for th…Are you still relying on Facebook to fil…BusinessPrice History Chart of The Associated Press Stylebook 2013…
“A new era of newspaper experiments on the Internet, fueled in part by the fear that the Web will not generate profits, has begun.” (NY Times… free registration required.) —Rethinking Internet news Similar:We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like. Until Now | History & Archaeology”Hear my voice. Alexander Graham Bell.” …CultureA Colorado…
“Fighting monsters and escaping from dungeons is a whole different world when you’re a woman. Men are oh-so-helpful when they’re not busy whistling at you.” Andy Patrizio cross-dresses as a half-naked elf babe. Wired.com Similar:"Gen Zers know the difference between rock-solid news and AI-generated memes. They just do…Over the past couple of years, researche…CultureMaking a…
The American Library Association is none too pleased with a new federal law requiring Web filters in public schools and libraries, and has decided to sue. ZDNet —Filter THIS! Similar:Highlighters and Intellectual Growth in CollegeTucked away in this article on how to av…AcademiaKing Oberon Midsummer Make-upMidsummer closes tonight, July 23. My da…CultureAs part of an…
“As any snack aficionado knows, crunch-tastic is the ultimate snack-chip adjective, outranking crunch-riffic, crunch-rageous, and even crunch-mongous.” The Onion. Similar:You have 20 minutes before the sun blows upThis charming game focuses on exploring …AestheticsWhere Professors Send Their Children to CollegeTo understand this story, you have to ke…AcademiaGender and Language — Revisiting Advice I Posted in…
For textual detective Don Foster, “it’s certainly been interesting going to Shakespeare class, coming back to my office and talking with the FBI or the police department about some document in a criminal case.” Todd Winters. Similar:See How Vaccines Can Make the Difference in Delta Variant’s ImpactHere’s a great NYT “interactive” story t…DesignLong-Haulers Are Redefining…
— updated to handle web sources Choose a form, fill it out, and push the button… you will get an individual MLA “Works Cited” entry, which you may then copy and paste into your word processor. Dennis G. Jerz —MLA-Style Bibliography Builder Similar:With actor Ken Bolden, who appears in Quantum Theatre's gripping (and hilarious, and…
Every damn fool knows that the phrase “masters of the universe” came from a 1980s TV show. So why did they put that anachronism in the Titanic movie script? After spending all that money on sets and special effects, did they have nothing left to hire a starving English grad student? And when Rose gives…
Here is a link to my 2000 blogging archives, as preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Similar:My wonderful daughter.PersonalJustice (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 7) When Wes trips on a fence, joggers' god gets in…In which Wesley commits a crime on the L…CultureTwitter suspends Trump's accountTwitter suspended Donald Trump’s account…Current_Events"Oliver Twist" is a story…