Interesting: Members of the earth’s earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth. According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their [...]
Archives for the ‘fluff and fun’ Category
Gifts
Sunday, 20 December 2009
New Rule
Thursday, 17 December 2009
“The Rumors of My Death…”
Friday, 27 November 2009
wrote Mark Twain, “have been greatly exaggerated.” True here as well, but only slightly. Autopsy The lines from Nick Cave’s song, “Hallelujah,” sum it up: My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb And my piano crouched in the corner of my room With all its teeth bared Change “piano” to “Gilgamesh” and there’s not [...]
Wordle Caption Competition Winner, Photoshop/Gimp Goodness
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Announcing… ΨΨ The Winner of the McCain Stump Speech Wordle “Write Your Own Caption” Competition © ΨΨ I am pleased to announce the winner is the very talented Vincent Robletto, whose Kerblotto blog screams “Subscribe” for its verbal and graphic wit and creativity. Vincent’s submission rose above thousands hundreds tens ones of rivals. So, without [...]
Oedipus, the Wordle
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
“the black places in the hearts of men”
Monday, 8 December 2008
[Update: Oh my goodness. Seems the student writing below is, shall we say, not entirely original. I'm still thankful for the gesture, oddly.] Call me slow. I’m spring cleaning in December. Old papers may as well follow old leaves. And I come across this, which a 15-year-old student, who never said much of anything (in [...]
“Nice White Lady” (video): The Answer for Failing Schools?
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Out of Town, Happy Thanksgiving
Friday, 21 November 2008
Open Thread: Wordling Campaign Speeches: Write Your Best Caption
Saturday, 25 October 2008
“Joe Jobless already trying McCain economic plan.” A reader last week mentioned this “Wordling Political Speeches” as a NYTimes lesson plan, so I Wordled McCain’s stump speech in Colorado this week. I thought I’d have fun with it by turning it into an open thread for readers to play with. Here are the rules: Write [...]






