The Geek Who Understands You
From The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell: We are actually powerfully influenced by our surroundings, our immediate context, and the personalities of those around us. Taking the graffiti off the walls of New York’s subways turned New Yorkers into better…
From Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize The 21st Century by Michio Kaku: Generations of high school children gasp when they read Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, for they are amazed to discover that Juliet was only thirteen years old. We sometimes…
From David Crystal’s book The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left, by way of Delancey Place. In spelling, the [English] language was assimilating the consequences of having a civil service of French scribes, who paid little…
I hadn’t ever thought of it this way, but I think the man is on to something. “One of my pet theories about the popularity of roleplaying games goes like this. Roleplaying is fantasy shopping for guys. That is, men…
And do we not all long to throw down our altars and rid ourselves of our possessions? Do we not gaze coldly at our clutter and say, “If these objects express my personality, then I hate my personality.” For what,…
Your mileage may vary because your odometer is busted. (From Perverse Access Memory)
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