On Boards of Canada, "Reach for the Dead"
@Danzig! It's still there.
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On How To Get Your Readers To Write Your Newspaper For You
This was a poignant thing to read. It reminded me a little of my days at a small-town newspaper in the late 90s in my hometown—which happens to be Grinnell, IA, home of Hayes' alma mater. At that point we still used film cameras and laid out issues by hand, so most of my shifts were spent in the darkroom or in front of the wax-glue machine we used to assemble layouts.
My boss and mentor there also died a few years ago, but he was a genius. Also a chain-smoker. Also an alum of Grinnell College.
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On In My Day Naughtiness Was Harshly Penalized
When I was nine I was rooting around in my parents' bedroom closet a few weeks before Christmas, looking for my presents, and I found the complete Voltron (this was in 1985), and my mom caught me in the act and told me she was going to return all my presents to the store, and I was distraught, but when Christmas came I still got all my presents, including the Voltron, and I was the happiest boy in the world.
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On A Handy Test for Reddit Users: Are You on the Internet Right Now?
My students who talk shit about my class on Twitter apparently don't think they're on the Internet.
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On A Conversation With D.T. Max About His New David Foster Wallace Biography
This is wonderful. I look forward to reading this book with equal parts excitement and dread. I still miss him so much.
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On When "Trigger Warning" Lost All Its Meaning
Speaking of taking care of ourselves online, surely by now someone's created a service that strips all the racist comments out from city newspapers' websites (i.e. all the comments). If not, I will contribute mightily to that Kickstarter campaign.
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On Your Copy Editor Hates Your Book Adapted from Your Twitter
Appropriately enough, that copyeditor's entire blog post is a bit of a humblebrag.
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On "He ruined a number of people’s lives for no real reason, and he was generally a toxic influence on the national debate."
It's jarring to see this obit followed by one for Anthony Shadid who, you know, actually died doing something worthwhile.
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On Boards of Canada, "Reach for the Dead"
@Sister Administrator Seventy-ten