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• Why So Silent?

  August 14, 2008 in blogging

  It has come to pass that my friend Todd has seen fit to mock me for my lack of new content in the comments section of my last post. He is lucky enough (or unlucky enough, depending on one’s personal taste) to have caught me in a particularly sarcastic mood. He informed me that I’d been “tagged in a meme,” and that’s where the trouble started. [...read on...]

• If I Were Still in School, I’d Start Writing Term Papers in This Format

  July 31, 2008 in Odds & Ends

  Over at the august hypertext confines of McSweeney’s there has appeared a new piece by one Sarah Schmelling, entitled “Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition).” A sampling: [...read on...]

• Bursting from the Blogroll: One Serving of Soul Jazz

  July 16, 2008 in Odds & Ends

  My brother and his cohorts bring forth the funk:

  For more about this performance, check out his post over at …nwood…. [...read on...]

• The Web Right Now, Illustrated

  July 14, 2008 in Odds & Ends

  Excerpted from The State of the Web - Summer 2008, a clever commentary in illustration form by web designer Matthew Inman:

  

  If you don’t get all of the web-geeky references in the… [...read on...]

• It’s Perfectly Simple

  July 10, 2008 in Odds & Ends, Words & Language, blogging

  

  That’s it - I am through with dumbing it down for you people.

  [...read on...]