Archive for March, 2008
The Onion gets it right…again
I strongly suspect that all the real news is to be found in comedy and that the stuff passed off as straight news is actually a huge joke. Anyway, this made me giggle.
Novelists Strike Fails To Affect Nation Whatsoever
Nor has America’s economy seen any adverse effects whatsoever, as consumers easily adjust to the sudden cessation […]Things you didn’t know you didn’t know
The Bad Astronomer’s at it again with a great post called Ten Things You Didn’t Know About the Milky Way Galaxy. I actually did know a few of those things, but certainly not all. I can do little more than look at stuff like this in absolute wonder. We know so much and yet everything […]
Thursday music
I walked into the Deep Dish, a cafe at uni, the other day and had a bit of a twilight-zone moment when I hear Joe Dassin’s ‘Et si tu n’existais pas’ playing. I don’t sing very loudly, but the lady at the counter noticed and, after a chat, offered to lend me the CD […]
“Losing” language
Ken MacLeod writes about why the use of Gaelic in signs in parts of Scotland bugs him. It’s an interesting, if brief, look at the emotional entanglement with language that, for most of us, usually remains buried.
But for what it’s worth, my guess is this: we regret not speaking Gaelic, and we resent the presumption […]21 Accents
Yes I should be working…
Chick Does 21 Different Accents - Watch more free videosIt’s been weird
This past week or so has been pretty full-on, at least for me, what with meeting what felt like at least a million new people, getting ‘orientated’, getting in touch with my supervisor, wading through readings for classes, and being generally buzzed from the whole thing. I’m glad I had a quiet, fun weekend because […]