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In flightless bird news: this item, sent to me from a colleague and loyal EMUTalk.org reader, and from something called The Awl: “Emu Dies in Suspicious Circumstances.” Allow me to quote the brief piece in its entirety: A “mad emu” was on the loose in El Paso yesterday, “snarling rush-hour traffic near Interstate 10 and attacking [...] I was not planning on posting much or at all over the break here, but when I came across this article via Geoff Larcom’s Facebook profile, well, how could I not pass it along here? “Shrinking Newsrooms Put Colleges in the Content Business” from this week’s CHE is about what’s happening with fading media coverage [...] I’m about to dim the lights around the EMUTalk.org control complex in honor of winter break– not shutting down entirely, since I will not be traveling to an undisclosed location this season but will instead be hunkering down right here, apparently under a never-ending snowfall. If there are any loyal EMUTalk.org readers going to warmer [...] Also on annarbor.com, “Naked man steals children’s books from Ypsilanti District Library, police say.” The opening sentences: Ypsilanti police say a library patron took off his clothes and exposed himself to an employee today before fleeing with children’s books in hand. The man hasn’t been located by police. Sure, harass a couple college kids about making a perfectly [...] This is a little off-topic, but I know there are plenty of Detroit-city fans in the area, and for all I know, there are some Ypsilanti clips in here, too: via the great site boing-boing comes this just over an hour long collection of old film clips featuring Detroit between 1917 and 1970. I tried [...] Loyal reader/friend of the site Publius Crabgrass alerted me to this fine Dilbert comic: Notice that our PowerPoint presenter is discussing “PROJECT EMU.” Coincidence? Well, yes, probably so. But I think I’ll be checking back at dilbert.com this week to see if there is any mention of our fair campus and/or my favorite flightless bird. This comes to me via something called Deadspin: “NYU Business School Professor Has Mastered the Art of Email Flaming.” It’s a little long, but the gist of it is that Scott Galloway, a NYU business professor and entrepreneur-type responded to an email sent to a student who was trying to explain why he showed up [...] I’m not even sure how I stumbled across this, but here it is: from the site Oddly Specific, “The strangely particular website about peculiarly exacting signs,” “Why MSU is better than U of M.” Actually, the comments on the site make it pretty clear that this is not really real/it’s a joke, etc. But I [...] An alert EMUTalk.org reader sent me this link the other day: “Big Time Losers” is the web site about a film of the same name that will be on PBS– I assume at some point in the near future. Here’s a blurb from the site: Big [...] According to this entry at “The Oldtime Strongman Blog,” this gym used to be right across the street from the tower– maybe where there’s an administrator parking lot now? Unfortunately, it was torn down in the mid 1960s. |
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