Notes From James Joyce's Writing Workshop
<I>McSweeney</I>'s again—and all too believable.
Wes Phillips
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Scan Those LPs!
Hmmm. Okay, we're not talking real hi-fi here, but a good read nonetheless.
No Points For Style?
My wife insisted that I post this, "the best exam answer ever." Not that it did the guy any good.
The Wasteland Meets Gravity's Rainbow
Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet—and the Kaavya Viswanathan kerfluffle. Or something.
Generation Xerox
Kurt Andersen says that it's probably too late for Kaavya Viswanathan to claim "the similarities were part of a deliberate postmodern intertextual take on 'real' genre novels." Umm hmmm.
Yawning As Social Behavior
In other words, yawns <I>are</I> contagious.
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
As a kid, I loved the Heinlein novel with that title, which began, IIRC, with the hero "testing" his spacesuit by jogging through his neighborhood in it—at night, so he wouldn't attract attention. North Dakota is probably a better choice.
A USB Turntable?
Interesting concept—maybe.
The Box That Changed the World
You're thinking television, right? Nope, it's the shipping container.
Living Without Subordinate Clauses
A tribe living on Brazil's Maici River has only three pronouns, no words for colors, no use for numbers, and not much of a past tense. But its language is generating debates among linguists like you wouldn't believe.