Version 7.0ish. Digital Humanities. Running. Pedagogy. Linux.

• Factcheck.org rips apart Jerome Corsi’s “mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods,“ The Obama Nation.
• Weekly…viewing: After a bunch of years of rumors, the four minute pilot for the proposed Buffy The Vampire Slayer animated series (planned to take place early in the series) has finally leaked onto the internet:

I have to say, this looks pretty good.  The dialouge stays very true to the series and the animation reminds me a lot of the excellent Batman: The Animated Series.

• Amy Goodman writes for Mother Jones about librarians in Connecticut who fought, and defeated, a National Security Letter.
• I am pretty excited that Bob Mould is writing an autobiography.
• The Complete Review reviews William Goldbloom Blooch’s The Unimaginable Mathematics Of Borges’ Library Of Babel.

• Christy Dena’s insightful response to Jane McGonigal’s essay The Puppet Master Problem: Design For Real World, Mission-Based Gaming from the Second Person anthology.

• Michael Filas review of N. Katherine Hayles’ My Mother Was A Computer: Digital Subjects & Literary Texts.

• Daniel Green reviews the new James Wood book in the new issue of Open Letters Monthly.

Meanwhile…

• The New Yorker piece on Obama’s early years in Chicago politics is another indicator he is just as scummy and slimy as the next politician. Making the right friends, the right votes, the right influences; you might counter by saying “that’s politics” but I say that if you take part in that crap, I blame you. I’d rather have no government than one filled with slimeballs. None of the above…yet again…in 2008.

• Alexander Solzhenitsyn recently passed away. When we moved to Manahawkin, I remember the first friend I made was reading The Gulag Archipelago at the time. We started to bond while discussing that and other books.

• Io9 offers a guide for fans of the modern Doctor Who series who wish to get into the classic series.

• Scott Esposito comments on the amazing ending of The Mill On The Floss and links to a review of the novel from a 1860 issue of The Atlantic.

• PETA still sucks as much as I remember.