Why are there radio stations aimed at kids? Dallas Morning News, TXCrunch Gear has an amusing post about plans to transform one New York radio station from a rock format to a pop format. The folks who own the radio station say the new format will provide "young adults" with a venue to "discover...

Disquieting. It is beautifully written, but perturbing since it possibly hints on the borders of the blasphemous. Based on mythical religious figures, The Sybil of Delphi and The Wandering Jew, The Sybil orbits around the two characters’ encounters with different gods and their parallel calamitous...

Marc Bosquet has a great piece at the Valve in response to the NYTimes piece about humanities PhDs and the economy. The thrust of the Times piece is what a terrible effect plummeting endowment values and constricted state budgets are having on job possibilities for humanities PhDs. The thrust of Bos...

Hilzoy has a great post up about the bankruptcy of all this 'Going Galt' bullshit. To sum up: on what date, specifically, can we look forward to the fine innovators and creators at pajamasmedia to Go Galt? Michelle, please let me know in advance when you are going to withdraw your wealth-creating ta...

It’s night three, I’m tired, and we all know that if Tatidrama makes it through I’m going to commit hari kari, so let’s just get to it... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With so much on the line, the Ryperbole was turned up to HIGH this evening: Tonight, the last three places will be filled. It is about t...

I like this Chronicle piece about one assistant professor's (it's really very hard for me to not type "ass. prof." every time I write that) approach to writing a monograph while teaching a 4/4. I like it because it is practical and sensible and presumes that some people actually go about scholarly b...

Mistress Tokyo has been an antagonist around here since 2006 - now you can finally see what she looks like. You're welcome. Sybil Hawthorne is a cute young goth girl - tattoos and piercings with long black shiny hair and ghostly white skin. And she loves to suck on stiletto heels. I'm a sucker for g...

NOVELTY AND CHOICE: After having a terrible 2008, Chen Xiao decided to let go, and let China’s netizens decide how she spends her days for the price of a small fee. She won’t do anything she considers illegal or immoral, but she will pick up dinner for your family, or deliver a hot lunch...

by Bill Strickland Stage 7 of the Tour of California began amid the malls and downtown-ish boutique stores and upmarket food chains of Santa Clarita, the sort of neighborhood that over-inflates the idea of a European village with the gasses of the American Dream, and the street that passed under the...

I woke up in an exceptionally good mood given the gallon of fluid in my sinuses, and then I opened my inbox where this story had been sent by a friend and now my mood is shot. Faced with mounting unpaid lunch charges, Albuquerque Public Schools last month instituted a "cheese sandwich policy," servi...