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What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Co...

New Philosophers' Carnival at A Brood Comb (which means what, exactly?).

From the Film Society of Lincoln Center website: On the night of November 20th, the cinema lost one of its finest, a fiercely independent sp...

Over at the Valve, there has been a continuing month-long pile-up on Michael Bérubé's latest opus on literature and politics. Most of...

Here's a classic putdown, courtesy of Crooked Timber : It’s a refreshing frappe of ignorance, suspicion, and homophobia topped with whip...

A new Philosophers' Carnival! Check out the neato rides here .

Today is of course Halloween, and all the kiddies were out in force (still are, some of 'em). On my way to the library, I saw Batman, a...

3QD points us to The Nation 's appreciation of composer Steve Reich on his 70th birthday, which includes the following description of ...

The local library (next town over actually) had its semiannual book sale again (see my last haul here ), and yesterday I went over and check...

Jason at Evolutionblog linked to this game , and I've tried it a few times. You move your knight around the board, trying to land on a...

New Philosophers' Carnival here .

We now return to the status quo ante ALDS , in which only the original Tigers are Tigers. Good work everyone! Carry on.

Or, if you've written one yourself, you can make it available to others. (I'm thinking about it...). Here's the link . HT: Lei...

I owe this observation to Michael Berube (hmmm, can't make acute accents for some reason). Anyway, see here for more playoff ruminatio...

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Another one of those damn quizzes. I don't have time for this, dammit! Now where did I put my glasses? [HT: Siris] You scored as Comm...

... the graphic-novel edition of the latest work by the ever-dangerous Michael Bérubé. Strike a socialist-realist pose, and check it out! ...

According to this test, I am "definitely a nerd but low on the totem pole of nerds." Story of my life. HT: Ed B, who is apparentl...

On Monday, which was Labor Day, I watched a DVD of Laurent Cantet's 1999 film Human Resources , which I had not selected specially, but ...

Appropriately enough, the Back to School edition of the Philosophers' Carnival takes place in the Playground .