8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City A Horrible Place To Live | The Onion
Funny cuz it’s true! :-/
“Typewriters you can own. I think a computer owns you. You can see mechanical things, but it’s so hard to see electricity. And computers are taking away the incentive to learn and the purpose of learning anything. Everything is on a computer. You don’t even need to have a brain anymore. You can just push a button.”
The oldest typewriter repairman in New Haven | Yale Daily News
With 70+ people RSVPd, tonight’s DBW Happy Hour + Book Swap has taken on a life of its own. I love it!
“If we can have werewolves, why can’t we have black people? Are we really that worried about strained credibility in a game set in a fantasy world?”
The Escapist : The Pasty White Person Is King
D&D Online’s character generator is pretty decent, and Guild Wars’ Nightfall had the most diverse one I’ve ever played with. This goes beyond gaming and into books, though, where diversity in settings, characters and mythologies are all severely lacking.
I’d love to have a Harry Potter or Percy Jackson that my kids can really relate to.
Welcome to Six Flags, New Orleans.
On the fifth anniversary of the disaster, redevelopment plans have fallen through and the site remains an eerie reminder of a more carefree time.
See the full gallery here.
"The only way to get rich from a self-help book is to write one."
— Christopher Buckley, God Is My Broker (via waxfroot)
“The most beautifully peculiar of all American dream-spaces. A splendidly alternate mythology. Deep and determinedly unofficial culture. The city they couldn’t Disneyland.”
(via William Gibson on New Orleans: “The City They Couldn’t Disneyland”)
My own thoughts about New Orleans here.
"3. CALLS UPON all readers to be less dismissive of books they have not read, and even to give a new type of book a try every once in awhile, perhaps aided by an expert in that field;"
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SUBJECT OF RESOLUTION: The relative statuses of…
Stephanie FTW!
