Excerpt from Benjamin Nugent’s new book of the same name. If you date a writer/star of The Office are you still really a nerd?
American Nerd
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Books · Geek Archaeology · Asides
A few of my favorites:
The true story behind Boston’s Curse of the Bambino. Also: girly burlesquers!
In which our hero lands a job, and bids adieu to the Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Amish computing, the Ralphies, Senator McCarthy and me.
“You will be stabbed with ten swords! Then given seven coins! Then you will become a juggler! Then you will die!”
The case for open source Judaism and the true nature of God. Also, South Park references.
Most recent posts:
Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax.
Don’t get me started.
Every country on earth is transformed into a D&D campaign just by translating all the place names.
Reactions to the Obama election from all around Bloggyville.
Post-election euphoria: I feel so full of “less shame,” I can’t tell you.
In loose Borgesian categories:
Excerpt from Benjamin Nugent’s new book of the same name. If you date a writer/star of The Office are you still really a nerd?
Tags: Books · Geek Archaeology · Asides
Interwob links to confound and bemuse:
North Country Blues
Or, why did Dylan go south?
Crouching Data, Hidden Patterns
Flowing Data ranks the year’s Best Data Visualizations; two of five come from my visualization crush Amanda Cox.
Pants Extinguished
Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax.
Vague Memories of America
American Memory archives + members of Skinny Puppy + multimedia + post-industrial music = some damn cool I don’t know what. (Douglas Rushkoff explains a bit.)
Robo-Theorizing
Bill Benzon on Astro Boy and the robot as subaltern. Hat tip to The Constructivist–but which of his blogs to link to?
The Better Dinosaurs of Our Nature
An “alternate history theme park” in which dinosaurs fight in the Civil War. Where was this in 1996?
Slow Blog Manifesto
Slow and low, that is the tempo. Hat tip to Dan Cohen.
Perky Canada Has, Um...
Remember that old Onion headline: “Perky Canada Has Own Government, Laws”? Apparently, for the next eight weeks, we don’t!
Channel Ocho
Or, television without context. Warning: may be creepy. Will be weird.
Invisible elves make our site go:
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