- The Virginia Quarterly Review has made most of its archive freely available online. Have a look at David Wyatt’s overthought yet strangely readable analysis of Star Wars mythology from 1982, post-Empire but pre-Jedi: “Star Wars is also a nearly apocalyptic summing up of the tradition of film; it gives us back the history of movies as if that history were over.” (via MetaFilter)
- Dada Math at Williams sounds fun.
- If you like rock and are kind of nerdy about it, there is nothing more fun than a few hours spent in the bowels of a college radio station, reading the years of annotations layered in stickers all over the records. If you don’t have access to such bowels right now, the Phoenix was able to obtain and scan a 1984 notebook from WHRB’s Record Hospital.
- New modes of web-enabled mathematical exposition are popping up everywhere. If Yu-Gi-Oh has its own wiki, why not A^1 homotopy theory?
Thanks for pointing out the Record Hospital link – those old notebooks are full of hilarious commentary…