Nov
27th
Fri
27th
Oct
31st
Sat
31st
Goal: To produce a maximally confusing phonetic alphabet, using anacrophony wherever possible.
Sep
13th
Sun
13th
Interview with Philip Zimbardo
The Believer magazine’s interview with the man behind the Stanford Prison experiment.
Koreshan!
Apr
23rd
Thu
23rd
Yay! Just what I need—more free stuff to listen to! MP3 Audiobook Free Downloads - Barnes & Noble
And, in related (slightly older) news, Amazon has a listing of about 700 free songs to download.
Apr
17th
Fri
17th
The Sentence Is a Lonely Place
A LECTURE DELIVERED BY THE SHORT-STORY WRITER GARY LUTZ TO THE STUDENTS OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S WRITING PROGRAM IN NEW YORK ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
Spot it? Good!
via Telegraph.co.uk
The Uncommon Origins of the Common Fork by Chad Ward
“Nor did she deign to touch her food with her fingers, but would command her eunuchs to cut it up into small pieces, which she would impale on a certain golden instrument with two prongs and thus carry to her mouth… . this woman’s vanity was hateful to Almighty God; and so, unmistakably, did He take his revenge. For He raised over her the sword of His divine justice, so that her whole body did putrefy and all her limbs began to wither.”
Doomed by God for using a fork. Life was harsh in the 11th century.
