The Return Of The Weekly Reader
- February 13th, 2012
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Recently, I have come to the decision that I need to blog more about what I am reading during the week. As I have discussed before, Twitter, and now Tumblr, have added a great immediacy to linking and reading, but I think noting more long standing reads is important as well.
Previous readers will remember how this works: Once a week, I will link to five of the articles, posts, podcasts, etc I have read recently. I will offer some explanation of why I think they are worth checking out as well.
- I agree with Amanda Watson’s assessment of the Code Year project. I have tried numerous programs like this in the past and never had even remotely decent results. For me, experimentation and trial and error teaches me code a lot more than routine lessons.
- Over at The Guardian, Margaret Atwood reflects on the legacy of The Handmaid’s Tale.
- Book Forum gets it so right about what is wrong with the writing of Caitlin Flanagan. What a horrible writer.
- Jessica Dickinson Goodman on Mad Men and Downtown Abbey. I am in the middle of rewatching Mad Men right now while waiting for the new season to begin. The process of rewatching has given me a new perspective on the show as I notice a lot of things I did not pick up on the first time. Downtown Abbey is a show I have not checked out yet, but I will soon (next?).
- John C. Dvorak on the coming National Internet.
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Thanks for the link! Downton Abbey is fun in a soapy kind of way, though this season has gone the way of melodrama so often (an amnesia plotline? *seriously*?) that it’s starting to get a bit obnoxious. But it’s got Maggie Smith in it, always a good thing, and she gets all the best one-liners.
Downton Abbey is totally worth it, and it’s on Netflix *shameless plug for a show I like.* Thanks for the mention!