Tag: things i like

Bruce McCall’s Serious Nonsense (TED)

I have loved Bruce McCall’s work since I was a kid reading National Lampoon. He gave this talk at Serious Play in 2008, with a nice sampling of his stuff. Brilliant.

You’re Not So Great: A Children’s Poem by Charles Darwin

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I really like Rock, Paper, Cynic (which doesn’t update often enough for my tastes). This four-part Seussian paean to human ordinariness is pretty well done. (Click through and read all four.)

Reality is so much less interesting.

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This is lovely. Not all in accord with how *I* envision the faces behind these voices, but totally understandable.

Linguist Llama

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Dammit. I am no longer a linguist, so these things are mostly going right over my head.

But it’s a llama. Goddam comedy gold.

How amazing would it be if a lolllama meme made me want to study linguistics again? (Not to mention how unlikely. There may be some Tennessee whiskey involved in my current thought processes.)

But come on. A llama. And linguistics. It’s destiny.

Song of Ice and Fire Experts Release A Game of Thrones Annotation

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So yeah, I downloaded Subtext to my iPad and bought this (via the Google eBookstore). On account of I am, um, a huge geek.

QOTD for October 10, 2011

“You may not see it now, but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else. . . . Whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.”

– Reason to Milo, The Phantom Tollbooth

Terrific piece in The New Yorker on the 50th anniversary of The Phantom Tollbooth.