radar days

It is generally agreed that the quality of German radar was superior to that of British radar. German radar had been built by engineers, Bri...

particles

Technology makes it easier to jump from corpus to corpus, and it makes it possible to take advantage of analysis above the word level. And b...

Some day more novels will look like...

an interactive visualization dashboard of recent statistics from MotoGP, the premier motorcycle road racing championship. the project explo...

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I am a doughnut, oder?

There's a post on the NY Times book blog, Paper Cuts , about Kennedy's famous speech and alleged howler, including a YouTube clip of...

but... but...

under the net

Took delivery two weeks ago of boxes of books and a piano that I put in storage 8 years ago. Some had spent time in Leeds with my DSL, who ...

Father's Day

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I had a rough idea of what we'd be talking about. I knew a number of refugees who'd come to the UK in the past. And I knew something...

Ruskin thou shouldst be living at this hour

Most construction workers — no matter what their trade or how narrow their job description — are fascinated by the entire scope of a project...

deferral

Wyatt Mason, who reviews for Harper's, the New Yorker and other magazines, has started a blog at the Harper's website called Sentenc...

electioneering

If there is a change in Idol's process, it is simply that the test marketing is now conducted via remote technologies of video monitor ...

McCarthyism de nos jours

Great interview of Tom McCarthy in the Believer . That said, McCarthy sometimes seems not to see his hand in front of his face. He says: TM...

Native Son

I don't know anyone who has read Gilbert Sorrentino. This is not exactly true. A college professor introduced me to Sorrentino's wor...

three novellas for a novel

Carl Shuker will be publishing three novellas for a novel on his website as of tomorrow.