Zoë Lance.

  • Gold Star for the Internet: The Hemingwrite

    I. want. this. so. badly. I don’t remember where I first came across the Hemingwrite (maybe a Verge article many eons ago), but an email popped up in my inbox this morning about a pre-sale (I love future Zoë when her brain is turned on.) Hemingwrite is a digital typewriter that saves all of your work…

  • Link Party: 12/1-12/5

      Sorry for the lack of blog posts this week — will be back to regularly scheduled programming on Monday. Here’s what I read this week: 1. The numbers behind department store holiday windows. 2. There’s a website that is devoted to proving the Beatles never existed. The Internet is an incredible place. 3. I have…

  • A Wild World of Words: The Sheaves

    Where long the shadows of the wind had rolled Green wheat was yielding to the change assigned; And as my some vast magic undivined The world was turning slowly to gold. Like nothing that was ever bought or sold It waited there, the body and the mind; And with a mighty meaning of a kind…

  • Link Party: 11/24-11/28

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. What happens to English when you get rid of the letter E. 2. A profile on The Strand, a bookstore in New York I’m dying to go to. 3. A beautiful essay on Julia Child, food and love. 4. A conversation on lightsaber construction in the teaser for…

  • Think Tank: What I’m Thankful For

    The world, in all of its beauty and sheer size, is such a mess these days. But I think in light of tragedy and incredible sadness, it is really important to remember that we can all still find a lot to be thankful for — and not just on Thanksgiving. And in remembering what we’re thankful for,…

  • Capstone Adventures: Research Conferences

    Over the weekend, I crossed an item off of the undergrad adventures bucket list: presenting at a research conference. I participated in the Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research at Cal State Fullerton at the suggestion of my capstone advisor, and I’m really glad I did. I gave a 15-minute presentation on my research on Yeezus to…

  • Link Party: 11/17-11/21

    A little later than usual today, but here’s what I read this week: 1. The history of the Styles section of the New York Times was fascinating. 2. How we look when we look at a painting. 3. The tiniest copyright violations ever made. 4. The causes of the rise in dystopian films. And 5. a…

  • Think Tank: Netflix

    https://twitter.com/AntDeRosa/status/535455149733724160 I saw this tweet this morning (from a very good journalist, might I add), and I couldn’t get it out of my head all day. According to that statistic, more than a third of the internet traffic in North America  is devoted to streaming Netflix television shows and movies. Judging by the hype over old…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Communications Law

    Besides Structure of Language, one of the other classes I’m taking is Communications Law. I’m not going to lie to you: It isn’t my favorite class. It’s at 8 a.m. three days a week, and we’re lucky if we have 15 people show up out of 50-something. And unfortunately, the entire class has consisted of lecture, the…

  • Link Party: 11/10-11/14

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. This scientific study accidentally included a working citation of “(Should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?)” I felt so many waves of secondhand embarrassment. 2. What makes a child an art prodigy? 3. If you haven’t seen Too Many Cooks yet, watch it and read this. 4. I…