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December 2, 2006

I'll Take Potpourri for $800, Alex

Yikes there's a lot going on as we race into the last week of classes. Here are a few things I've been thinking about:

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Phantom Professor launches this devastating attack of cuteness:

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I've updated my blogroll. (It's that thing on the right called "Links" that tries to get you to check out the other blogs I read.) Huzzah!

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Crooked Timber sends us to Dan Drezner's blog for this little bit of silly web quiz-induced ambivalence: "You have a good voice for media-whoring."

When I took the quiz, this is what I was told:

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West   Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The South
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

Go and read Dan's results and compare them to mine. I'll wait. I'm seriously wondering why Dan's "midland" results are better than my "midland" results (which somehow get called "West"?) for media-whoredom. I call shenanigans!

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UVM's resident Canadian Lit guru, Paul Martin (no, not that Paul Martin), writes a very nice mini-review of the "Why Read Blogs" talk, and is prominently featured in the latest issue of UVM's The View! Check it out for a capsule summary of some of the bloggy hipness busting out all over at UVM.

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With the release of the last two next-generation game consoles (the XBox 360 has been out for a year now, but the PlayStation3 and Nintendo Wii were only released last month), everyone on the game blogs keeps talking about HiDef this, 1080p that. For those of us still struggling with SD (that's "standard definition," quickly becoming the new scarlet letters of geek shame) and completely bewildered by the multitude of options available in the promised land of HiDef, Joel at Dethroner combines a handy guide to HDTV with the fun and mystery of a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel:

Oh, Joel, you had me at "turn to page 17."

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CNN.com is running a Reuters article that claims that 90% of all e-mail sent in the world now is spam. And not only that, but "The United States, China and Poland are the top sources of spam, data from security firm Marshal suggests." Hooray. We're number 1! We're number 1! Sigh.

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Not to be outdone in the Battle for Cute Supremacy, Cute Overload switches to armor-piercing cute-ammo:

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And with that, I'm out of here. Have a great weekend!

Posted by reparent at December 2, 2006 12:51 PM