links for 2009-11-07

• The Snatchback
• Plough & Stars marks 40 years in Cambridge
• The New York Times: Vestiges of Another Era, Residences for Women Still Exist in Manhattan

 

links for 2009-11-04

• How to access newsgroups when your ISP dumps Usenet
  Christ, October ended, now it's November.

 

links for 2009-10-31

• Teach a Kid to Program
  Covers the basics, good reference.

 

links for 2009-09-12

• New York:The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids
  While I think a school based on IQ tests of very young children is stupid, I must say that this entire piece is interesting because it points out the problem of praising inherent qualities that children aren't responsible for (how they seem to perform on a standardised test) as opposed to their conscious and conscientious efforts (how they worked to achieve the score they did).
  (tags: precocity New-York children)

 

links for 2009-08-29

• Richmond Declaration of Faith of 1887
• Essential Truths
• Letter to the Governor of Barbados

 

links for 2009-08-26

• The New York Times: A critic's opinion
  A restaurant critic retiring gives his opinion on the current "best" restaurants in New York, now that he need no longer constantly sample new ones.
  (tags: the-new-york-times frank-bruni)
• The Paris Review: everybody who'd be anybody
  Interesting view on The Paris Review, and to be frank, I don't entirely disagree.
  (tags: margaret-atwood the-telegraph the-paris-review george-plimpton)
• The life and career of J. Edgar Hoover
  "Jesus Christ! That old cock-sucker!" indeed. For once, I agree with Richard M. Nixon.
• Independent discount & salvage grocery store directory
  Linked from Consumer Reports blog. Interesting, but impractical for me — as everything in Massachusetts is in western Mass., there's nothing in Rhode Island and the ones in New Hampshire are up north.
  (tags: frugality)

 

Found on 23 July, 2009.

• Wired: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
  interesting list as I'd like to let my kids know about the differences inherent that they do miss.
• 18 Great Sites To Learn A New Language
  BBC, live mocha, Foreign Services Institute, French Language School, French Tutorial, Deutsch Lernen, DW-World

 

Jill McCorkle quotation.

If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life—This is who I am. This is what I love. This is what I believe—who would you want hearing your whispers? Who do you trust to hear your whispers? Whose breath do you want mingled with your own? Whose flesh still warm beside you?

Jill McCorkle, “P.S.”

 

Found on 20 July, 2009.

• Dept. of Disputation: Red Sex, Blue Sex : The New Yorker
  Interesting view on sexuality for pleasure vs. for traditional gender rôles, brought to my attention by Elf Sternberg.

 

Found on 17 July, 2009.

• rotten.com's Culture Library
  Helpful article on JerkCity. "Jerkcity is a daily comic strip which chronicles the adventures of Rands, Pants, Spigot and Deuce in a world of waking up late and getting high before breakfast. The residents of Jerkcity want nothing more than to drink in a corner and shout things out every once in a while."
• The Christian Science Monitor: Twitter users first to break news of Jakarta bombings
  The quick response underlines the rising profile of the social media site as it becomes a breaking news source.