Well said
Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Alan Jacobs: If you want people to believe that the populace is becoming more literate through digital technology, you need to be sure not to misspell “populace.” The whole post is quite good.
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Well said
Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Alan Jacobs: If you want people to believe that the populace is becoming more literate through digital technology, you need to be sure not to misspell “populace.” The whole post is quite good.
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world cup draw: we’re smilin’
aquariumdrinker (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... the group stage. However, the partisan in me is brimming with confidence. Best part of the post: Alan Jacobs comment: I don’t think there *is* a Group of Death this Cup. (I agree.) New York Times Goal: Carlos Bocanegra, Bruce Arena, Gregg Berhalter, John O’Brien and Benny Feilhaber discuss the USA’s chances for getting out of the group. What’s striking about these guys is how confident...
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Faculty Blog Round-Up: PowerPoint
ACRLog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Among academic bloggers, yet another battle is raging in the PowerPoint wars. Margaret Soltan, English professor and the venerable curmudgeon of University Diaries, links to a student’s blog to show how PowerPoint enables and encourages shoddy teaching. Fellow English professor Alan Jacobs agrees, pointing to students’ sense of entitlement that results from PowerPoint. Jonathan...
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Selected Soliloquies from The Tragical History of King Fergie, Part 1; or, The Matter of Wiley
The Run of Play (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. . . . Alan Jacobs can be found online at Text Patterns , The American Scene , and Twitter , among other places.
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ARAMAIC WATCH: Ariel Sabar's book My Father's...
PaleoJudaica.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... here . Two other books are reviewed by Nick Owchar, again in the LA Times . The first, by Alan Jacobs, When Jesus Lived in India: The Quest for the Aquarian Gospel: The mystery of the Missing Years , supports the baseless notion that Jesus traveled to India in his lifetime. Baseless not because it couldn't have happened – Jesus' contemporary, the philosopher Apollonius of Tyana,...
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