The NYRB has a fascinating piece on Wikipedia; it's technically a review of a book called Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, but mostly it's a natural history of the site, with long excursions into vandalism, edit wars, and the review author's efforts to spare entries from...
Month: March 2008
I can't find a news report about it yet, but the buzz is that Gary Gygax, founder of Dungeons and Dragons, passed away this morning. I played my first game.
"Diamond" Joe Quimby vs. Senator Clay Davis?
From Wing Nut News (er I mean Right Wing News), we get a feature of "hot female conservative bloggers" or something like that (ok, the title doesn't include "hot" but given that they ask about why and whether the women post photos of themselves on...
After a false alarm last year, it appears that the Australians have begun an effort in earnest to find the wrecks of the Kormoran and the Sydney:Deep-water sonar imaging equipment.
My worth-very-little guess is that the most likely outcome is that (with Clinton winning OH and RI, and Obama carrying VT) Obama wins the delegates in Texas and Clinton squeaks.
Remember yesterday when the Washington Post made room for Charlotte Allen's screed? Well, apparently the whole thing was just one tongue-in-cheek big ol' joke. Just like Joel Stein. Funny, I'm still not laughing. Oh wait, that must be because I am a humorless strident feminist.
Omar Little vs. Anton Chigurh?
News flash: Great writers often partake of the sauce:Prudent writers learn to take more out of drink than it takes out of them. Kingsley Amis, in a 1975 interview, prescribed.
Great. I wonder how many children will get seriously ill because John McCain encouraged their parents not to vaccinate them based on crank pseudo-science?
Armando, like several commenters, isolates this passage in the Jeffrey Rosen op-ed I blogged about yesterday and uses it to reject the entire analysis:Mr. Obama . . . is not.
Very early records (400 AD) indicate the existence of an organized Hindu monarachy in eastern Borneo. In the 16th century the ruler of a kingdom that would become Kutai Karta.