links for 2007-08-04
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Suck it, Squirrel! (I swear, the squirrels are out to get me.)
links for 2007-08-03
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Orangutan communication resembles a game of charades, a study suggests.
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Goobers – A Collection of Kid’s Songs”, released in 1993 on T.E.C. Tones (who were somehow associated with the Residents’ Ralph Records label, as I understand it), is damn near perfect.
links for 2007-08-01
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A new temporary foot bridge made of cardboard tubes has been erected over the Gardon river in southern France by a Japanese architect named Shigeru Ban – it can hold up to 20 people.
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J.K. Rowling subtly critiques, yet ultimately hews to, a fantasy script dependent on stereotypes culled from real-life racism.
Our Wedding Locations
You may or may not know this already, but Stephanie and I are getting married on May 31, 2008. Last week we visited our planned locations to take photos and reserve them.
We’re getting married in Great Oak Commons Park in our neighborhood, Old Northside, about a block away from our house. It’s a pretty little park owned by our neighborhood association on 14th Street and Park.
See more pictures of Great Oak Commons Park.
Our reception will be at the Propylaeum, a mansion in our neighborhood, located on Delaware:
The Propylaeum Club was built in 1890 by John W. Schmidt, a brewer from Germany, located just down the street from the Morris-Butler home and the President Benjamin Harrison’s home, it was just as grand. The members of the Propylaeum club, which is composed of women with the purpose to “inspire a love of literature, music, science, and the fine arts….to furnish Indianapolis with a woman’s social and cultural center”, decided to house their society there in 1922.
links for 2007-07-31
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Biologists helpfully re-shelve religious books out of the science section and into the religious fiction sections of bookstores.
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Thought I’d learn some new curse words, but alas, I know them all. Fun read, though.
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Not based on any sort of study – just one guy’s opinion. But interesting nonetheless.
links for 2007-07-30
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Intrigued by the wave of books and articles about failing boys, Mead crunched some numbers… she concluded that “with a few exceptions, American boys are scoring higher and achieving more than they ever have before.”
Pandagon’s Harry Potter Thread
The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows discussion over on Pandagon – The Life and Loves of Severus Snape – is a thing to be hold, weighing in a something like 892 comments so far (including mine, added below the fold here).
Including some excellent dissection of the book, the series, the author, and an interesting discussion of its place in Great Literature of The Ages that is the only subject I responded to after enduring several pompous lectures on the subject from a twenty year old calling himself “Opoponax.” Snore. You’re not the first guy to read Joyce in the history of the world, kiddo.
I think Bryan Caplan is a fucking dickhead
Oh, the things I have to say about this New Yorker article on economist Bryan Caplan’s book “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Politics.”
And alas, no time to say them, because we have to go out the door. But I’m putting Bryan Caplan on the list of arrogant jackholes whose shins I intend to kick if ever I meet them. Someday I need to search for that phrase in all of my blog posts and actually compile the list.
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