SubscribeIt is al another than it semeth: Chaucer and the Self-Other Binary
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“Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun / To telle yow al the condicioun / Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, / And whiche they weren, and of what degree.” So says Geoffrey Chaucer’s narrator in the General Prologue, and Chaucer continues to tell his readers [...]
Thank You for Smoking
I saw the film adaptation of this book on the same day I started it. I was about 50 pages in. Although the movie condensed some of the plot for brevity’s sake, and obviously excluded some of the political nuance that Buckley captures so well, I thought that after seeing the movie, I’d [...]
Friday Random Ten LX
The “Presenting an essay about the intersection of Gender Studies and Mediæval Studies is an easy way to confuse education majors” edition
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band with Choir • Sow Some Lonesome Corners So Many Flowers Bloom
Sia • Don’t Bring Me Down
Ani Difranco • Slide
Tiamat • Kaleidoscope
Pain of Salvation • Pluvius [...]
The Mysterious Island
I read 20′000 Leagues Under the Sea when I was a young boy and thought it was wonderful (science fiction at its finest), and imagine my surprise when I happened upon an article one day that mentioned another book, The Mysterious Island, which served as a sort of sequel. Well, I would see about [...]
Flow
A pretty sweet game that happens to be a thesis project as well. Gorgeous.
Through a GUI, Darkly
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Everyone wants to claim the GUI. The first iteration of Windows as we know it was released in 1985, and featured a crude—by today’s standard—GUI advertised by a frenetic Steve Ballmer on TV. Microsoft, however, was beaten to the punch by Apple, whose Lisa line of personal computers was the first [...]
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