Yes, let’s reminisce about They Might Be Giants, back in the No! days. Remember when we said, “They Might Be Giants is doing a kids album? … Oh, … sure, I can see it.” Here’s an interview from back then.…
Woody
He was a big man. Remembering Woody Guthrie on his 100th birthday (Radio Times)
Short documents can do big work
This pairing is of podcasts that discuss some short documents that have gone on to “make it big”. Here’s the first (longer) podcast, with a humorous take on the Constitution. The U.S. Constitution, as ‘improved’ by writer Kevin Bleyer (Radio Times)…
white blankie
A past student of mine is blogging while doing field work in India.
Instapaper pairing
Heard a happy small developer on Planet Money, talking about the benefits of the App Store marketplace. It really shouldn’t be a surprise that he later showed up on TidBITS. Reflect for a moment, if you will, on the differences…
Touching Tomorrow Today
A previous post got me thinking of Purdue’s old slogan, and that got me googling, and then finding a professor of mine for the two history classes I took at Purdue—my only social science / humanities classes as an undergrad,…