Archives for May 2008:

May 31, 2008 8:23 pm | 1 comment

Book Ideas That Didn’t Make the Cut

The Importance of Being Frank
DaVinci’s Plainly Written Note
An Extravagant, Bitter, and Sarcastic Proposal
Moby’s Dick
A Farewell to Arms, by Jody Williams
The Time-Traveler’s Domestic Partner
Love in the Time of Chlamydia
The Old Man and the Seasonal Affective Disorder
100 Years of ‘Tude
The Unbearable Triteness of Peeing

12:00 am | no comments

Quick Post Just Kidding Long Post Just Kidding Just Kidding

[via NBC.com]
Found this link on passiveaggressivenotes.com, which you should definitely read if you want to laugh / get angry. Thanks Carolyn for the link!
Also don’t miss graphjam, the newest creation from the people who brought you icanhascheezburger:

May 29, 2008 8:25 pm | 1 comment

On Bach and Classics (long post alert)

There are varying levels of regret that come with not doing your homework.
Level one is the brief pang of irritation when you realize that you will be too busy this week to make up the reading or lecture you missed yesterday.
Level two is the acute panic and then furious, unsubstantiated creativity when a [...]

12:00 am | 1 comment

Stuff White Colonialists Like

I’ve been reading so much Stuff White People Like that I was startled to recognize a similar tone of satire on a decidedly more serious topic:
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked [...]

May 28, 2008 10:00 am | no comments

Is Editing Wikipedia Better Than Watching Sitcoms?

Clay Shirky at the O’reilly 2008 Web2.0 Conference [via Peter Roome]
I saw this speech on kleinschmidt’s blog and boingboing pretty much the day it came out, but somehow I didn’t have the “Whoa this is cool” moment today, when I saw it again during a particularly long Google-Reader-facilitated click-orgy. As far as discussion goes, the [...]