The Debt of Socrates
May 26, 2010 by admin
Filed under Basic Program, Humor
I WENT down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddesses Brussels and Euro. There we chanced to find among other companions Polemarchus, who was sorely vexed. Why the long face? I asked. He replied that his wife, a hairdresser, had just been informed by the Assembly [...]
Cartoons from the Issue of May 10, 2010: newyorker.com
Check out: Crime and Punishment Cartoons from the Issue of May 10, 2010: newyorker.com.
The Downfall of “Hitler”
DCMA’d (removed due to the Digital Copyright Millenium Act): Was it really a good idea for Constantin Films, the company that made the (excellent) 2004 film Der Untergang (Downfall), to step up its demands for YouTube to remove all the video spoofs using a clip from its film? On YouTube, we’re in a bunker, and [...]
Happy 50th birthday, Rocky and Bullwinkle
(CNN) — Fifty years ago, Jay Ward’s animated moose and squirrel duo, “Rocky & Bullwinkle,” debuted on ABC, forever changing the way the world looked at animated television. In one episode, Rocky and Bullwinkle are propelled to the moon when their oven explodes while the pair are following Bullwinkle’s grandmother’s recipe for mooseberry fudge cake. [...]
Rowan Atkinson on Shakespeare
A hilarious skit featuring Rowan Atkinson (in tights) illustrating the elements of Shakespearean drama… more about "Rowan Atkinson on Shakespeare", posted with vodpod
Monsterpiece Theater – Me Claudius
From Sesame Street Season 11. more about “Monsterpiece Theater – Me Claudius“, posted with vodpod
Literature in the Age of Social Media
Penguin has done it again. When humorist Sarah Schmelling transformed Hamlet into a Facebook news feed, it launched the next big humor trend – Facebook lit. This hilarious book is the first to bring more than fifty authors and stories from classic literature back to life and online. Schmelling uses the conventions of social networking [...]
WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN???
From Twitterature, this is the tweet version of Hamlet. Students’ book transforms classics into ‘tweets.’ One day in spring 2009, Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin were hanging out in their Max Palvesky West dorm room, bantering about the increasingly popular social networking tool known as Twitter. The first years’ chat turned into a verbal game, [...]
Football Comes to the U of C – 1961, The Second City
more about “Football Comes to the U of C – 1961, …“, posted with vodpod
New Year’s Resolutions
more about “New Year’s Resolutions“, posted with vodpod
