Filter THIS!

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:Quotations: Integrating them in MLA-Style PapersI touched up an older handout on citing …AcademiaSeton Hill graduates its last "New Media Journalism" major this year.The English program…

The ultimate snack-chip adjective

“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:Harvard Science Historian Publishes Results of Unprecedented 30-Year Census of Copernican …”Catholic church authorities were disple…HistoryIt's such a privilege to introduce these young people to Shakespeare's body of work.After starting my 200-level “Shakespeare…AcademiaFolger Shakespeare Library on…

Textual detective Don Foster works with the FBI

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:Shatoetry iPhone app lets you put… words… in… William Shatner's… mouthWilliam Shatner and technology go way ba…AestheticsLoved part 2…

MLA-Style Bibliography Builder

— 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:Personal Essays: 7 Tips for Expressing Ideas in Words Wondering how to write…

David Carkeet exposes Titanic blunders

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…

2000 Archive

Here is a link to my 2000 blogging archives, as preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Similar:RIP Flash: Why HTML5 Will Finally Take Over Video and Web in 2014I am not a fan of Adobe Flash, which is …BusinessThat's what's been bothering me since yesterday's #AirPod reveal. #manamanaNumber of times one of my $9.99…

1999 Archive

I began blogging sometime in 1999, but didn’t begin dating my entries until July 20. Here is a link to my 1999 blogging archives, as preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Similar:Seeing Floyd Collins, a musical about caving and journalism. Front Porch Theatricals.PersonalAnniePersonalChess tournament final pairing. (He’s currently tied for 2nd.)PersonalSignage failure at Seton…