July 29, 2005
From the desk of Contributor A:Friday favorites
Ok, this is my blog for only one more day, and I haven't worked up anything newsy to get outraged about today (it's not yet noon, though). So here are a few things I like that I'd like to pass on before I hand the baton back to Jane G.
If you're interested in langauge remotely--and most people are--read Language Log. Most smart people think language as the set of rules they learned in English, and how to apply them to writing and speech. This blog by a few academic linguists shows you how scientists who study language think about it, which is quite different. Many of my myth-busting ideas have had some genesis in something I read there.
Achewood. A comic strip. You will think it is genius or you will shake your head in total confusion. I am in the former category. It takes a few strips to get into it. Then you are hooked, forever.
Speaking of comics, my friend Emily Flake does a great strip too: Lulu Eightball.
If you like photography and you are not on Flickr yet, you are basically crazy.
I bet lots of you are both way into politics and way into statistics. So you probably already know about Dave Liep's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, but if you don't, you should.
If you are way into politics and language--recurring themes here--you may be as dismayed as I am about the miserable state of political rhetoric in America in 2005. It wasn't always so.
Happy clicking.
Update: I totally forgot, a thing for all you who love the blogs and think mainstream media isn't keeping up with them: a new radio show, distributed by PRI, called "Open Source", which makes bloggers and IMers an integral part of their show experience in the same way callers have always been for talk radio. Check out the blog, and become a source yourself. Full disclosure that a close friend, Brendan Greeley, is the blogger/producer/wizard behind many of the show's innovative aspects. Friendship aside, it's still pretty rad.
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