Category Archives: Links
The Manchurian Athlete
See today’s Hate the Future (additionally good: Going Vogue)
Filed under Links, The church of "I Hate You"
Zombie Metaphysics
In addition to collecting all the standard press releases about new research by Williams profs, the Faculty Notes page also provides a (partial?) list of Eph faculty blogs. I’ve followed Mike Glier’s along a long line for a while, but … Continue reading
College Tour Guides
It’s been up for a while, but I also finally got around to listening to the latest episode of RadioLab, this one called “After Life”. The second segment “Metamorphosis” was very poignant, with an unexpectedly logical underpinning.
Filed under Links
The Hours
Neat interactive graphic on NYT visualizing how different surveyed groups report spending their time.
Filed under Links, New York Times, Research
The Art Ghetto
A snappy post by Daniel Siedell of University of Nebraska-Omaha (tip from AHN) considers “The Curse of the ‘Special Arts Issue’”, and how misguided editors (and complicit writers) doom their work to thematic ghettoes: These editors actually believe they are are doing … Continue reading
Vermeer for Today
Flying Fox: There are a handful of artists that have historically driven people to obsession. For Jonathan Janson it is Vermeer. Not only has he collected images and writings on Vermeer (adding a few of his own,) but in his … Continue reading
Roland Barthes eat your heart out
Also quality: handing me a mechanical pencil disguised as a traditional wood pencil after his trip to Japan this summer, Alan said, “Here you go, Matt! It’s an indexical sign of itself!” Last week was a bit of a wake-up … Continue reading
Filed under Links, Ridiculous quotes, Webcomics, Williams
Art Roundup
I’ll be posting about break in Florence and Venice hopefully tomorrow, but this wrote itself quickly this morning, so I decided to post it now. After sorting through last week’s email (mercifully light given that it is also spring break … Continue reading
New oven mitts!
I’ll write an actual newspost in a bit, but before that: garfield minus garfield – Selected Garfield comic strips with all the charachters but Jon Arbuckle removed. As the website creator calls it, “a comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and … Continue reading
