Just wanted to make all of you aware of the fact that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been putting all of its graduate and undergraduate course materials online for the last five years. I’ve been reading and learning there for the last three years.

Middle aged white men yelling at each other is really not my thing, but this discussion with radio host Kevin James on the show Hardball amazed me. Stick with it for three minutes, and you will understand why this moved me.

1. People keep spraypainting all the best t-shirt ideas.

(via Duncan Cumming)

Disneyesque noodling spoiled by indie rambling.

Thought I would try this again. It was so much fun to do it for that dress-up-show. Late. Drunkyish. One and a half hours into the show, here I go. Maybe someone else can chime in on the first one and half hours. Please jump in and explain what I missed.

For the Cohenites (both Leonard and Seth) out there, I give you Michael Barthel’s smart and entertaining research paper on the weird history of one Leonard Cohen song with many incarnations. His motivation for undertaking this research of what exactly happened to that song began after hearing the Fallout Boy song, "Hum Hallelujah."

OK. I got this text editing thing working now. Watching Project Drunkway.

Technology and stuff always gets in the way of being able to say what I am thinking while it happens. This simple experiment in Live Kenny Bloggins is now 27 minutes behind, due to technical difficulties.

Gary Gygax rolled a natural one today, dying at the age of 69. Here is a bit of the AP: obituary.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.