I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Would Accept Me As a Founder
Joystiq links to an article in the Harvard Crimson about the University’s Interactive Media Group. I can thus add Harvard to the growing list of schools hosting neat clubs I can’t attend. My old...
View ArticlePlagiarist Paradise, or Homework as Communication Medium?
A friend and fellow Ph.D. student just referred me to “‘legitimized’ plagiarism on Facebook,” an application called Facebook Docs. From the Facebook page: Make next year easier… upload last year’s...
View ArticleHow People Are Defining ‘Nerd’
Journalista links to a recent New York Times Magazine article by Benjamin Nugent, “Who’s a nerd, anyway?” The author has a book coming out next spring titled American Nerd: The Story of My People,...
View ArticleBreaking Down Academia
I’m in the process of revising the categories on the site a bit. Before, I was lumping a bunch of things under the “Academia” category that really didn’t belong there. Now I’m dividing that category up...
View ArticleLink Pileup
I had two or three windows full of tabs sitting open in my web browser. Most are closed or bookmarked, as I gave up on reading them anytime soon. Here are the rest. Essays: I really, really need to get...
View ArticleIntroducing the Nork
It sounds like some sort of mutant dining utensil, but no. Genevieve sends word of an exchange between her roommate and the ten-year-old daughter of some friends. When the adult in the conversation...
View ArticleLatin Fans: Wankers vs. Geeks
Emily Wilson, an assistant professor of classical studies at Penn, has written an article at Slate reflecting on why Americans might be interested in learning Latin. It’s an interesting question, and...
View ArticleLinks: A Few Notes During a Moment of Quiet
Things have been busy with non-web writing lately, and are about to get busier, so updates may be sparse (or, I suppose, absent) around here for at least another week or so. Tomorrow I’m headed to...
View ArticleWonks vs. Nerds
Inside Higher Ed directs us to a couple sites describing American University‘s new branding campaign around the word ‘wonk.’ American has a website offers a description of what the term means, suggests...
View ArticleStuff I Want You to Know About
After a long hiatus, welcome back to Geek Studies. Work took a bigger bite out of my blogging time than I ever expected these last several months, but I guess that’s what happens when you join the QA...
View ArticleGetting Into The Spirit
I keep coming across web sites today with funny April Fools’ Day posts, but I feel that my own site is too new to blatantly lie to readers and get away with it. (Plus, the last time I pulled off an...
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