>From Dave Eggers and his type of folks, their internet magazine is called McSweeneysIt contains an unsung, yet hilarious group of lists.Here is a list of my favorite listsOne of my favorites is:Implausible ClaimsMade by Vanilla Ice in His 1990 No. 1 Hit “Ice Ice Baby.”
Funny video from Saturday Night Live.Chronicles of Narnia raphttp://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0
>Great magazine. Here is a list of what I think are the best articles of the year: Burkhard Bilger’s “The Egg Men” – Egg cooks in Las Vegas John McPhee’s “Out in the Sort” – What you never knew about UPS, the life inside the hub in Louisville. Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Climate of Man” –…
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>This guy rocks. He paints on pavement in 3-D.Julian Beever
>The first link of the day is from Microsoft, of all places. A fun little app that lets you go all Ken Burns on your pictures.Download the app, import pictures, record voice-over narration, zoom in and out on your pictures, choose your music, and you’re done.It is called PhotoStory 3 Download hereReferred by lifehacker
> Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow $25.95 Freakonomics, immensely popular and critically acclaimed, promises to help us see through the eyes of the most interesting economist today: Steven Levittt. Despite being marketed as a surprisingly interesting book about the normally dull field of economics (as its title suggests), this…
The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the quest to unlock its mysteries By Shannon Moffett $24.95 Algonquin Books What could be more fascinating than the human brain? In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, Shannon Moffett takes us on a journey to meet the people who study the brain and learn their discoveries. Written as…
> Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology, by Stewart Justman. Ivan R. Dee, September, 2005. $27.50 You have heard of Dr. Phil, you probably have friends who have adopted the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, you may have even nodded blandly upon hearing that Men are from Mars and Women are from…
> My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, by Rebekah Nathan. Cornell, September 2005, $24 While the “Ivory Tower” of higher education in American is often faulted for being out of touch with the country around it, it is an open secret among academics that many are similarly out of touch…
