Let’s give a warm FP welcome to the lovely and talented (and one fabulous babe) guest-blogger Ursula de la Maison-Hache. Her musings can be found at La Maison-Hache, which is also reachable off to the side there, below the photoblog. We’re still experimenting with layout, so please bear with us.
Couldn’t afford an MIT education? Couldn’t get in? No problem; now you can learn, MIT-style in the comfort of your own home. You don’t get the paper to hang on your wall (nor, according to their site, do you get “an MIT education”), but it’s about the learning, right?
McSweeney’s seems like it’s put together by the kind of people I’d like to hang out with. Or maybe I’d hate them. They publish a variety of stuff, from open letters to obscure poetry forms to lists, some of which are interesting, and/or amusing. Some of it is written by people you may have heard […]
From today’s OED Word of the Day: knitting, vbl. n. […] c. A girl or girls. slang. 1943 C. H. WARD-JACKSON Piece of Cake 39 Knitting, girl or girls. 1946 J. IRVING Royal Navalese 104 Knitting, girls in the plural. The singular of this is ‘A Piece of Knitting’. 1962 GRANVILLE Dict. Sailors’ Slang 68/2 […]
The tone of this story about aging and humor is very optimistic, but it has me wondering what sorts of crossword puzzle-analogs I have to do so that I’ll still find funny when I’m older the things I find funny now. I’d hate to turn 70 and suddenly be nonplussed by “You know what my […]
A librarian with a job on the side (are you surprised? Combine municipal employment and a female-dominated profession and you won’t be.) as a dominatrix apparently makes for a hilarious news item. My favorite comment: “Shahan, who worked for 25 years at the Western Washington University Library, took the Concrete job without telling the Upper […]
A couple guys got together and developed an algorithm to guess the gender of a writer from the writer’s text. Some other folks put together a web-accessible implementation of that algorithm. It thinks more than half of the Craig-written blog entries that I tried it on were written by a female. I’m too self-absorbed to […]
Wow, I don’t think I’ll be porting a huge number of text entries into a new format again anytime soon. But if you must port your blog, do it this week while watching I Love the 70s on VH1 (which also has a whole new look).
Not three days ago, a friend of mine told me that the German word for a song stuck in your head is ohrwurm (earworm). And now, This article about the phenomenon shows up on Blogdex. I have found in my research that the implantation of the parasites is more effective if the recipient’s brain has […]
It’s been on Blogdex too long for me to ignore: The most common match is Galadriel, apparently.