"This article began after I had read four terms' worth of student writing and tried in vain to find a word that described its peculiar badness. The word is "schematic" and it is the key to Daydream Literature, too. Most student writing is either schematic or clichéd -- in the latter case because the writer is inexperienced and in the former ( Read more... )

Hier soir c'était le paradis pour les savants qui ont une passion pour la tribologie ( Read more... )

These last weeks I've been getting too much of an ultra-right view of the US by a US citizen, because I read Jerry Pournelle's blog (which he calls a view) in a daily manner. In order to balance things out I went over to the Mother Jones magazine Web site, to get some ultra left view of the US by a US citizen ( Read more... )

The Wikipedia article on The Tower of Druaga anime series is very interesting ( Read more... )

I read this long article on Assange in the NY Times, last article I read in it before they put up their paywall. It got all complicated about what he really was. It's really very simple. They were describing an adult who still wants to be a teenager ( Read more... )

This is a great summary, the extremely rare kind that looks at both sides ( Read more... )

Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, with the bullet going right through her brain. Six persons have been killed, including a nine year old. In order to convince myself that the USA is not just one sick, sick, sick, sick country I went and watched one of the few segments of "Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael" on YouTube ( Read more... )

Ho-ho-ho

Joyeux…

http://nekoli.deviantart.com/art/Noel-Vermillion-160129365

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Ho-ho-ho

Merry…

http://drcloud.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=72#/dfuvwv

Samedi dernier j'ai invité un ami à manger au "Toqué". Je profitais d'un de ses passages à Montréal pour venir moi-même faire un tour dans notre ville natale. Le repas était fait de sept plats. Le premier plat était une mousse de rutabaga au goût incroyablement bon. Le septième était un plat de fromages semi-fondus et fondus qui était encore ( Read more... )

I just saw this on Penny Arcade:

"Darts is a great game, though. I think it's worth asking whether you need the most advanced console on the market to simulate such a game, a game where you toss things no more than eight feet. I mean, you tell me."

WELL DUHHHHH, THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN PLAYING DARTS AT 8 FEET AND I'VE BEEN PLAYING IT AT 30