State of Fear:
Waiting for me in my inbox this morning: The Al-Queda Telemarketing Scam (via Justin).
Lookie Here…
DVD Easter Eggs lists (pretty comprehensively) hidden features on your favorite movies, “Easter Egg” being slang for a feature that only reveals itself when you run your mouse over it.
Did you know that oddly placed owl on the main menu of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone will lead you to a whole other menu of options in you click on it? I found that out yesterday.
Respect due…
To everyone who wrote in and made suggestions in response to my last post. While I’m an avid reader of both Caterina.net and Bookslut, but are a bit too narrowly focused (or personal, dependind on your point of view) for what I’m looking for, a Boing Boing focused on culture and the arts.
The search continues…
Seeking…
A weblog focused on the arts, culture, literature that sort of thing, preferably written by a really smart person. Kinda like what Lemon Yellow was.
Please pass on your suggestions. I don’t want to have to put it together myself.
“Here’s my Story, Doc”
Across the country, medical schools are requiring doctors and medical students to take writing classes in an effort to produce clean case histories and see their patients as human beings rather than statistics. The thinking goes that if you have the language to tell a patients’ story (“Jane Doe had a ruptured spleen” rather than “The spleen was ruptured”), you can imagine them as a real person. Bellevue, the psychiatric hospital in New York even has its own literary journal.
Reading this reminded me of my undergraduate days at Johns Hopkins as a rare humanities major in a sea of pre-meds, a bit like being the assistant chaplain at West Point. The two science geeks I lived with would alternate between making fun of my inactive career goals (“Ohhh Writing Seminars. You want fries with that?”) and begging me for counsol on their term papers (“Uhhh, Kev. What’s a passive verb?).
We didn’t stay friends but now I know what a Hippocampus is and hopefully they can string two sentences together. If not, I say send ’em’ to Bellevue!