Linkage (particularly about writing)
Study claims women typically care more about width than length. Via phanatic.
Possibly how many women feel about high heels (not completely worksafe).
Why not read in your bookcase?
Fred Saberhagen died recently and it is Robert Heinlein’s centenary. An essay in appreciation of RAH by Spider Robinson which certainly got me wondering how much I have been influenced by Heinlein. (Quite a lot, I suspect.) Via drjon.
One person intersects the popularity of recreational medievalism and academic medievalism: "When you say 'fantasy,'" she said, "you think 'medieval.' So: Why?"
The simplest answer to that question is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
In praise of Arts & Letters Daily: nowadays my browser home page.
About how fiction can be more honest than facts in a censored society.
Posthumously released affidavit gives Roswell story extra twist. Via linkfrenzy.
Misreading macho movies as homoerotic. Doing so satirically: “Our audience is mostly men who are in denial that they are attracted to other men … We always throw in a ‘hot chick’ so that the guys can convince themselves she’s the reason they got an erection and continue with the fantasy that they are 100% heterosexual.” Meanwhile the Scary Movie folk are planning a spoof of 300 starring Kevin Sorbo: guess which angle they’re taking.
Years ago, when I was doing my Dip.Ed., I did prac. teaching at a Sydney school whose multicultural policy was to not have a multicultural policy because it brought attention to differences. How right they were: Yet we discovered something quite different. While any society will always have its fair share of bigots, we also found that governmental multiculturalism made the problem worse. By arguing that all groups in society should be allowed to live according to their own beliefs and customs, they were encouraging people to see themselves as different from one another. And not just a little bit different, but fundamentally different. So it fostered a them-and-us attitude to politics.
Terry Eagleton on George Orwell and three biographies of the same. Terry Eagleton on T S Elliot: In fact, Eliot was not a Fascist but a reactionary, a distinction lost on those of his critics who, in the words of Edmund Burke, know nothing of politics but the passions they incite. Terry Eagleton skewers Stanley Fish: By defining all principle in such sublimely Kantian terms, he engages in his usual custom of straw-targeting his antagonist in order to ensure himself a Pyrrhic victory.
Poll of opinion in 47 countries finds support for the US and China declining, Putin and Dubya have similarly low support, Israelis and Palestinians both have low opinions of the UN …
Possibly how many women feel about high heels (not completely worksafe).
Why not read in your bookcase?
Fred Saberhagen died recently and it is Robert Heinlein’s centenary. An essay in appreciation of RAH by Spider Robinson which certainly got me wondering how much I have been influenced by Heinlein. (Quite a lot, I suspect.) Via drjon.
One person intersects the popularity of recreational medievalism and academic medievalism: "When you say 'fantasy,'" she said, "you think 'medieval.' So: Why?"
The simplest answer to that question is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
In praise of Arts & Letters Daily: nowadays my browser home page.
About how fiction can be more honest than facts in a censored society.
Posthumously released affidavit gives Roswell story extra twist. Via linkfrenzy.
Misreading macho movies as homoerotic. Doing so satirically: “Our audience is mostly men who are in denial that they are attracted to other men … We always throw in a ‘hot chick’ so that the guys can convince themselves she’s the reason they got an erection and continue with the fantasy that they are 100% heterosexual.” Meanwhile the Scary Movie folk are planning a spoof of 300 starring Kevin Sorbo: guess which angle they’re taking.
Years ago, when I was doing my Dip.Ed., I did prac. teaching at a Sydney school whose multicultural policy was to not have a multicultural policy because it brought attention to differences. How right they were: Yet we discovered something quite different. While any society will always have its fair share of bigots, we also found that governmental multiculturalism made the problem worse. By arguing that all groups in society should be allowed to live according to their own beliefs and customs, they were encouraging people to see themselves as different from one another. And not just a little bit different, but fundamentally different. So it fostered a them-and-us attitude to politics.
Terry Eagleton on George Orwell and three biographies of the same. Terry Eagleton on T S Elliot: In fact, Eliot was not a Fascist but a reactionary, a distinction lost on those of his critics who, in the words of Edmund Burke, know nothing of politics but the passions they incite. Terry Eagleton skewers Stanley Fish: By defining all principle in such sublimely Kantian terms, he engages in his usual custom of straw-targeting his antagonist in order to ensure himself a Pyrrhic victory.
Poll of opinion in 47 countries finds support for the US and China declining, Putin and Dubya have similarly low support, Israelis and Palestinians both have low opinions of the UN …