Oh, the self-hate! Over at The Common Review you can sample this article, Why We Look So Bad, by Basically, she’s just an academic who thinks professors (to her credit, including herself) don’t dress well enough in general, and that they really aren’t keeping up with the rest of the professional world. Why they should bother, why they should care, seems beyond me. Young people, in droves, are giving up keeping up. After all, it’s all just a way of putting money into the pockets of whoever seems to be deciding this season’s fashions. I’m not saying we ought to …

Found a link on Chad Orzel’s page Uncertain Principles to this brilliant site:I Found Some Of Your Life. From the introduction: In my possession is one (1) memory card from a digital camera. This memory card was found in a taxi in New York City. I have no idea who the owner of the camera is. The pictures on the memory card were taken over the course of exactly one (1) year in this person’s life, starting July Twenty-Fifth, Two Thousand and Three (07-25-03) and ending July Twenty-Fourth, Two Thousand and Four (07-24-04). I am going to post one (1) …

Ever wonder what you’d get if you mixed a Tarantino film with the Harry Potter industry? Because I’ve found it online, here. And it’s pretty good. Meanwhile, I really enjoy Dr. Oxford’s approach to literary and cinematic criticism, even if he’s wrong about Star Wars. Go here. Explore.

I found this article, by a Philosophy professor who is also a boxer, quite interesting. I was thinking about recent comments Myoung Jae made about the worthiness of spending money on sports in some contexts. I think there may be something to it, but I also think of John Ralston Sal’s words; he complained that we spent too much of our government funds in Canada on big stars and artists, and did little-to-nothing to encourage local arts communities. Anyway, and interesting passage from the article: Americans for the most part live in a culture of release in which passion and …

… is quite possibly the weirdest blog I’ve ever seen. But I like it. Someone had his brain stolen in London and now he’s looking to get it back.

I know I’m in Korea, not Japan, but I haven’t seen a Korean Name Generator online, so I’m, well, settling for a Japanese name. Given that there are kanji characters (“hanja” in Korean, meaning Chinese characters), I suppose some Korean could render this for me, if they were so inclined… My japanese name is 吉国 Yoshikuni (good fortune country) 大輝 Taiki (large radiance).Take your real japanese name generator! today!Created with Rum and Monkey‘s Name Generator Generator. Found this on Marvin’s page, by the way.

You’d think, with people needing to write articles like this, that we’re still in the Middle Ages or something. It’s sad.

A very biting sestina: John Ashcroft and Tom Delay Pretty Much Suck Ass via Blog of a Bookslut.