Friday, May 14, 2010
Figure Five Links Rodeo
I run across lots of amusing, outrageous, or thought-provoking articles that make me think "Wow, I really need to blog about this!" The ones which inspire some sort of personal commentary I do blog about (see this week's WTF Wednesday, for example). A good number of them, though, are things to which I have nothing to add other than "Seriously, go read this! It's funny/good/interesting/totally messed up!" I do want to share them, though, so they wind up perpetually open in tabs which clutter up my browser and make me feel like I've got lots of unfinished business. Hence Links Rodeo, a general purge of these things in list format with a brief summary. Go hog wild!
- This fascinating letter from a student of linguistics details how creating fantasy languages for the upcoming A Game Of Thrones miniseries would also offer an unprecedented opportunity to study how the brain generates language. Recommended Reading For: People interested in language, neuroscience, or fantasy epics.
- In a similar vein, this study created an online game to simulate the evolution of an alien language... and it's working. Recommended Reading For: people who are intrigued by language change or who spend too much time on addictinggames.com
- From The Onion, "Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once." Recommended Reading For: Snarky radicals, discouraged activists, cynical bastards, fans of America's Finest News Source, people with tongues superglued in cheek.
- This letter to the editor is reprinted as "The Best Thing I've Read All Year." It is one of the best things I have read all year as well-- a well-written, levelheaded appeal to opponents of gay rights. Recommended Reading For: Everyone. This is a side of the story that you should hear.
There may be more Links Rodeos to come; there are a lot of things I wish I could make people read. In the meantime, please do check these out. I very rarely read links that people send me unless they've passed my stringent vetting process, and I can vouch for all of these.
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