From "How to Speak and Write Postmodern" by Stephen Katz, some advice on how to make your ideas sound appropriately postmodern. This was written in the mid-90s, so (fortunately) this style has fallen somewhat out of fashion in academic writing, but I still read enough shit that sounds like this to find this incredibly funny. Katz writes, ( Read more... )

Here's another video I really enjoyed. Make sure to watch the whole thing; my favorite bits are at the end.

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I was feeling like I wanted to write something nice for Cory this morning, maybe a poem. But I'm not really a poet. So when I came across this madlib love poem generator I thought it was perfect. Here is the poem we (myself and the generator) created:My LoveYour skin glows like the banana, blossoms peaceful as the daffodil in the purest hope of ( Read more... )

I have spent the last couple of hours watching Tim Minchin youtube videos. He is a very funny man and a fantastic musician. This is my favorite video, I think:

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This song is just great and his performance is awesome, but it doesn't show off his really incredible piano skills, so here is another that does.

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So yeah, check him out. There are ( Read more... )

I've been reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. At one point he mentions this list of proofs for the existence of God. Some are commonly presented proofs and some are just silly. It's a very long list and I haven't read them all yet, but here are a few of my favorites so far.

( To the Proofs! )

I've been reading bits of Stephen Colbert's book I Am America (And So Can You!) lately. I thought I'd share a few of my favorite sections thus far.

( Atheism, Gay Marriage, and Higher Education )