Commentaries - December 2008

College Board loan scam

Don’t let this scandal — one of the biggest in the history of American higher education — go unnoticed.

My vocabulary did this to me

I’ve been rereading Jack Spicer’s Thing Language.

Imagists on the web

Up at MIT Nick Montfort — embodying the perfect mixture of engineering and literary backgrounds — has his students do some serious web work in (I’m almost tempted to say) the old-fas

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