Year-End Links Dump
I'm not a big one for New Year's resolutions, but this seems like an appropriate moment to go through my Bloglines folders and clean out stuff that I marked "keep new" for later use. Most of those links are now well past their sell-by date, but there are some that are still worth reading:
- Speaking of the MLA, The Little Professor points to 9 Interviews, a collection of short films of fake MLA interviews with job candidates. They're probably funnier to people who've been through that process, but there's some good stuff.
- Staying in the general area of literature for a moment, Book Slut links to recommendations of "Literary Fiction for People Who Hate Literary Fiction" at Emerald City. I haven't read that much of what they recommend, but the descriptions of the things I have read are pretty good.
- If you don't expect to be up to reading Literary Fiction tomorrow, Matt Yglesias offers a bunch of complaints about worldbuilding in the Potterverse. While there is some validity to the "Dude, it's a kid's book. You're thinking about it too much," I agree that they're not books that reward deep thought, for me, anyway.
- If you'd like something completely silly, a passing mention by Eugene Wallingford led me to discover the existence of Ook!, a Turing-complete programming language for orangutans.
- If you're one of those annoying people who plan to remain completely sober, and take up the resolution of Big Issues first thing in the New Year, Setshot offers some thoughts on race in basketball. Don't wake me until you're done with that one.
- It probably deserves better than inclusion in this list, but AKMA has a nice post on blanket denunciations of religious people. Which is dangerously close to ending 2005 the same way we ended 2004 hereabouts, so I'll leave it at that.
Happy New Year, unless you operate on a different calendar system, in which case, um, have a nice day?
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