#122 Moleskine Notebooks « Stuff White People Like:
"In fact, it’s a good rule of thumb to know that white people like anything that old writers and artists liked: typewriters, journals, suicide, heroin, and trains are just a few examples."
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sometimes I love this school...
Escaped slave's story offers lesson -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY:
"Jared Gourrier walks across the Union College campus wearing a T-shirt that reads, 'Who's Moses Viney?'
If you ask the junior class president and American studies major to answer that question, be prepared for a lengthy and impassioned history lesson, delivered in the soft, honeyed drawl of his native New Orleans.
Gourrier will discuss his research on the life and times of Viney, a runaway slave who found refuge at Union College at a time when the issue of slavery was tearing apart the nation, at Founders Day on Thursday."
"Jared Gourrier walks across the Union College campus wearing a T-shirt that reads, 'Who's Moses Viney?'
If you ask the junior class president and American studies major to answer that question, be prepared for a lengthy and impassioned history lesson, delivered in the soft, honeyed drawl of his native New Orleans.
Gourrier will discuss his research on the life and times of Viney, a runaway slave who found refuge at Union College at a time when the issue of slavery was tearing apart the nation, at Founders Day on Thursday."
Take that snark, Denby...
Beautiful Awards: Secretly, the Oscars Have Always Been This Gay:
"The Oscars aren't exactly the 'one billion people are watching!' extravaganza of eyeballs they used to be, at least not in this country. Ratings for the telecast have sunk to precipitous lows in recent years, and all of the glitz and tomfoolery is increasingly being dismissed as cheesy indulgence by irony-fattened 21st century mindsets."
"The Oscars aren't exactly the 'one billion people are watching!' extravaganza of eyeballs they used to be, at least not in this country. Ratings for the telecast have sunk to precipitous lows in recent years, and all of the glitz and tomfoolery is increasingly being dismissed as cheesy indulgence by irony-fattened 21st century mindsets."
I am going to see both of these...
Jane Austen Overdrive: Pride And Predator Is Dante's Peak, Claims Zombies Writer:
"We've Pride and Prejudice and Zombies writer Seth Grahame-Smith has spoken about his feelings about rival project Pride and Predator."
"We've Pride and Prejudice and Zombies writer Seth Grahame-Smith has spoken about his feelings about rival project Pride and Predator."
Google Google Burning Bright
New Search Technologies Mine the Web More Deeply - NYTimes.com:
"The challenges that the major search engines face in penetrating this so-called Deep Web go a long way toward explaining why they still can’t provide satisfying answers to questions like “What’s the best fare from New York to London next Thursday?” The answers are readily available — if only the search engines knew how to find them"
"The challenges that the major search engines face in penetrating this so-called Deep Web go a long way toward explaining why they still can’t provide satisfying answers to questions like “What’s the best fare from New York to London next Thursday?” The answers are readily available — if only the search engines knew how to find them"
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