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Attention Dave
via xtranormal.com
This may be relevant to your interests. (Click the link to Xtranormal.)
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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.
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You’re Not So Great: A Children’s Poem by Charles Darwin
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.)
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Reality is so much less interesting.
Oh yes. It’s on.
Linguist Llama
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.
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Song of Ice and Fire Experts Release A Game of Thrones Annotation
via tor.com
So yeah, I downloaded Subtext to my iPad and bought this (via the Google eBookstore). On account of I am, um, a huge geek.
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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.
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