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As mentioned by dorkbot's founder, NYC meeting organizer and sexy geek douglas irving repetto earlier today, he has just replaced the static dorkbot logo on the dorkbot home page with my animated GIF version assembling the several alternate-color-schemed logos douglas had previously created. Though I've contributed in various small ways to dorkbot over the years, this is a true honor! And I think it's the perfect encapsulation of the dorkbot spirit that an animated GIF, whose frames are images created by douglas with an old-school analog pen plotter, joins a BLINK tag on a webpage that's remained in plain-vanilla HTML all these years while waiting for the world to catch up with it.

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Writing the Libertarian New York Times Sunday Dialogue

Here's the perfect opportunity for aspiring libertarian op-ed writers to follow Murray Rothbard's lead in getting into the opinion section of The New York Times: send in a response to the newspaper's weekly "Invitation to a Dialogue" feature.  I've floated the general idea of having libertarians coordinate on responding with letters to the editor before, but this feature is particularly suitable for unconventional contributors due to being specifically aimed at soliciting contrasting responses from across the political spectrum to each week's piece (which makes it even more of a letdown when a promising topic gets a weak response).  And while the usual contributions make it clear that New York Times regular columnists have no monopoly on banal authoritarianism, this week's opening letter Invitation to a Dialogue: Skipping 12th Grade is a surprisingly Paul Goodman-esque "practical proposal" "to break the rigidity of four years of high school".

Garbage in, garbage out

From this morning's David Brooks column:

Likewise, many teachers have an intuitive sense that different students have different learning styles: some are verbal and some are visual; some are linear, some are holistic. Teachers imagine they will improve outcomes if they tailor their presentations to each student. But there’s no evidence to support this either.

History Lesson

• Les Misérables: everything Americans know about French revolutions.
• The Big Lebowski: everything Americans know about the New Left.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail: everything Americans know about anarcho-syndicalism.
• Monty Python's Life of Brian: everything Americans know about leftist sectarianism.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation screening this Saturday in NYC

At 92YTribeca. It's been a while since the ultimate fan project has been shown in the NYC area, so this is a rare opportunity for Indiana Jones buffs!

 

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Bill Murray casting irony

FDR was closer than the Koch brothers to being a real-life Duke brother.

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I'm on Tumblr

As part of a fresh start for the new year, I decided to finally try out Tumblr (as a supplement to, not a replacement for, "regular" blogging on this blog and elsewhere). My currently-very-work-in-progress Tumblr is here.

New Girl & dorkbot-nyc: a comparison

New Girl: This week is the second week of its second season.

dorkbot: This week is the second meeting of its 0x0cth season.

New Girl: Adorkable.

dorkbot: Adorkable.

New Girl: Has a theme song written by Jess.

dorkbot: Has many theme songs written by dorkbots.

New Girl: Rocks a lot of polka dots.

dorkbot: Rocks a lot of pen plots.

New Girl: Stars the pinup of williamsburg.

dorkbot: Created by a top 10 sexy geek.

New Girl: Has inspired many animated GIFs.

dorkbot: Has a BLINK tag on the front page.