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 Send to email | Words are numbers too in General |  By Rough Ty
el 24-Jan-2012 | One reason to get excited about the rise of the enticingly named "digital humanities" is that pretty soon students will be able to do their math homework and their English homework at the same time. The two subjects will converge (as things tend to do these days), and that should greatly enhance the efficiency of education. Stanley Fish discusses the coming of the digital humanities, and what it portends, in two nicely circuitous longforms: Longform #1 and Longform #2....
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| Words are numbers too | | One reason to get excited about the rise of the enticingly named "digital humanities" is that pretty soon students will be able to do their math homework and their English homework at the same time. The two subjects will converge (as things tend to do these days), and that should greatly enhance the efficiency of education. Stanley Fish discusses the coming of the digital humanities, and what it p [..] Read complete article | | Published 24-Jan-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| All the Bad Words You Can't Say in Pure [Cuss Words] |  Meant to post this last week, forgot, sorry. Someone went rooting around through a PC copy of Pure and found what has been described as Disney's standard wirty-dord list. If you crack up simply reading the word "boner" or "felch" or "gerbiling," this shou [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Dec-2008 by Owen Good in Cuss Words Disney Nsfw pure
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| World Of Warcraft's U.S. Sales Numbers Are Massive [Big Numbers] |  Between collectors editions and normal retail boxes, the core game and expansions, the NPD reports that World of Warcraft has pushed 8.6 million units in the U.S. to date. Following up on the news that EA's The Sims 3 had sold 800,000 copies in its first month, Gamasutra deci [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-Jul-2009 by Mike Fahey in Big Numbers BlizzardMmorpgPCSalesWorld of Warcraft
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Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
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| Journey Without Words |  You're reading Reaction Time, a new weekly column that claims to examine recent events, games and trends in the industry, but is really just looking for an excuse to use the word "zeitgeist." It debuts on Fridays in Engadget's digital magazine, Distro. [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Apr-2012 by Ludwig Kietzmann in jenova-chenjourneyplaystationps3psnreaction-timethatgamecompany
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Too stupid for words | | If you make a movie that falsely claims there's a massive conspiracy to expel dissenting voices, it's probably unwise to then expel dissenting voices.
And if you are going to pass photographs around to security guards and instruct them that certain people are threats to your movie, and must be expelled, you might as well have the guards be on the lookout not only for PZ Myers, an inno [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Mar-2008 by Thoughts in Creationism
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| Words in stone and on the wind | | After I wrote, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, about the malleability of text in electronic books, a reader asked me to flesh out my thoughts about the different ways that "typographical fixity" - to again borrow Elizabeth Eisenstein's term - can manifest itself in a book. I've been thinking about that and have come up with four categories of fixity or stability - not all of which are typ [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Feb-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
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