December 2011
8 posts
The 56 best/worst similes →
4. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
17. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
24. He felt like he was being hunted down like a dog, in a place that hunts dogs, I suppose.
48. I felt a nameless dread. Well, there probably is a long German name...
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anaphora:
“If you start doing things that frighten you or you don’t know, there’s a very good chance you will actually open up your consciousness. The important thing is confronting your own fears. If you’re afraid of pain, that is exactly what you have to experience to find out what pain is. When you open the door to pain, you might find out you can actually control it. You might be free of the...
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The Curse of Cow Clicker →
It’s a Facebook game called Cow Clicker, and it’s unlike anything Bogost ever made before, a borderline-evil piece of work that was intended to embody the worst aspects of the modern gaming industry. He meant Cow Clicker to be a satire with a short shelf life. Instead, it enslaved him and many of its players for much of the past 18 months. Even Bogost can’t decide whether it represents his...
Brave leadership spreads hope: Attawapiskat takes... →
abcsoupdot:
From Pamela Palmater, rabble.ca:
In 1979, the largest diesel spill in northern Ontario occurred from underground pipes which leaked under their reserve lands. INAC [Indian and Northern Affairs Canada] did not remediate this environmental hazard, but instead, INAC built a school for the community on these contaminated lands. The school itself ended up acting like a cap for the...
Can the public Ivies be saved? →
Higher education leaders have dreamed up two big, radical ideas that could potentially rescue the nation’s top public universities from the brink of fiscal oblivion. Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, thinks they probably won’t work.