Short Schrift

Andrea Walker, "Chicago, Where Fun Comes to Die" : The U. of C. is known for serious thinking combined with a sarcastic, self-depr...

Clusterflock 's skeleton crew has some nice nineteenth-century stuff this weekend: First Barbary War (May 1801-1805) First edition of By...

File under: " Why didn't you just Twitter this, again?" I've been shopping for a laptop bag as we speak, so I am 100% pri...

This Kids in the Hall sketch has come up twice in conversation this week. I consider it, like the film that gives it its name, essential vie...

I like this so much . From io9.com : The attraction, called "Professor Cline's Dinosaur Kingdom," imagines a lost chapter from...

If only I had 6 million EUR lying around : Château de La Jarthe was once a refuge for the Order of the Knights Templar, the secretive Christ...

A German adaptation of Mel Brooks's The Producers opens in Berlin .

Goodbye, Bea Arthur : Futurama Weeknights, 9p/8c Fembot comedycentral.com Joke of the Day Stand-Up Comedy Free Online Games Golden Girls Leb...

Wyatt Mason on outdoor springtime reading Leaves of Grass (the 1855 edition) : "Not least of the pleasures of reading outside is one o...

Some people keep tabs open in their browser for days or weeks; I keep them open in my well-loved RSS reader NetNewsWire . (NNW doubles as a ...

Teletwitter (or "Twittergraph"): A multiplatform twitter client that pounds out received tweets like an oldtimey telegraph/teletyp...

" The Craziest Space Racists Of All Time " at io9.com offers a decent overview of allegories of race and racism in science fiction...

Blogging for the NYT is a little like writing/directing your own movie: Via Mark Thoma, Anatole Kaletsky writes: Smith, Ricardo and Keynes ...

Idris Elba, best known for playing Stringer Bell in seasons 1-3 of The Wire , is now playing Charles Minor, Michael's new boss on The Of...

Jonathan Hoefler on the beauty of collage : Vaughan Oliver (designer for The Pixies et al.), Shinro Ohtake, Eduardo Recife, Chip Kidd, and m...

A program from Penn's Career Services: Coping with the Stress of Conducting a Job Search in a Bad Economy While Also Finishing a PhD, an...

"Get Fuzzy," 2/8/09 :

I have a soft spot for Nerve's "Dating Advice From..." column, especially when it's advice from nerds. This week it's ...

September 1986/2008.

Thomas Friedman : Obama can’t wait until Jan. 20 to weigh in on this. If we don’t stimulate the global economy fast enough and big enough, ...