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?
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May 30th, 2008 · No Comments
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A few of my favorites:
- More or Less Bunk
The true story behind Boston’s Curse of the Bambino. Also: girly burlesquers!
- Go Western, Young Man
In which our hero lands a job, and bids adieu to the Chronicle of Higher Ed.
- Some Pig
Amish computing, the Ralphies, Senator McCarthy and me.
- Hit By A Fish
“You will be stabbed with ten swords! Then given seven coins! Then you will become a juggler! Then you will die!”
- Torah! Torah! Torah!
The case for open source Judaism and the true nature of God. Also, South Park references.
- More or Less Bunk
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The New Old
Most recent posts:
- 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.
- Are Whales Fish?
Don’t get me started.
- The Atlas of True Names
Every country on earth is transformed into a D&D campaign just by translating all the place names.
- I Have Until January 20!
Reactions to the Obama election from all around Bloggyville.
- American For A Day
Post-election euphoria: I feel so full of “less shame,” I can’t tell you.
- Pants Extinguished
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The New New
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. Some Of Our Corky Chums
- Easily Distracted
Timothy Burke's terrific history, pop culture, academia blog. - Civil War Memory
Reflections of a high school history teacher and Civil War historian. - Confessions of an Aca-Fan
Henry Jenkins, MIT's great and obscenely prolific scholar of media convergence, fandom, and the new geek order. - Bibliodyssey
"Eclectic book illustrations" doesn't begin to cover it: an endless parade of images haunting and strange. - Citizen of Somewhere Else
Pillar of the Constructivist's multi-blog empire: Hawthorne studies, life in Japan, Daddyhood, and women's golf.
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