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(Now back to twitter silence.) 4:59 PM May 31st via web
Surely @academicdave has seen this [Psychonauts for Linux]: thepowerbase.com/2012/05/psycho… 4:58 PM May 31st via web
GhostProf Thank you, #SSHRC! Now, who's ready for some 1st edition Ulysses action? #Bloomsday modernistversions.com 3:55 PM May 14th via Twitter for Mac Retweeted by cforster and 3 others
@clioweb I've got this in my pinboard from when I migrated my (few) WP comments to Jekyll: vilepickle.com/blog/2011/05/0… ...it worked. 5:04 PM May 14th via web in reply to clioweb
@GhostProf Awesome; I'll be watching for this--if I can pull myself away from celebrating... *that* day. 9:17 PM May 12th via web in reply to GhostProf
@tcarmody I almost said Terriers... but was slightly ashamed. It is a cute little gem of show. (And on Netflix Instant). 7:47 PM May 12th via web in reply to tcarmody
usesthis Evening, Friday friends! Here's Eric S. Raymond, open-source hacker and author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar: eric.s.raymond.usesthis.com 7:22 PM May 11th via Twitterrific for Mac Retweeted by cforster and 7 others
zunguzungu And my night is complete! RT: @johngmarks If you wanna get really bummed on a Friday night, read @zunguzungu's last 10 tweets or so. 5:58 PM May 11th via web in reply to johngmarks Retweeted by cforster and 3 others
That last RT, is pretty good. 10:18 AM May 11th via web
aaronsw Have you not gone to see @ThisAmerLife live yet? Here's a small sample of what you're missing: youtube.com/watch?v=YTVFNZ… 10:09 AM May 11th via Echofon Retweeted by cforster
@miriamkp Echoing others, WP may still make sense; the UVA Humanities Institute is a relatively non-bloggy, static page virginia.edu/humanities/ 7:49 AM May 11th via web in reply to miriamkp
@miriamkp If its the chronological part that is bothersome, would a wiki be simply too outre? 7:30 AM May 11th via web in reply to miriamkp
Hey, look at that; congrats @mekonkol on your postdoc! 7:29 AM May 11th via web
Did not know Richard Wilbur's excellent "Cottage Street, 1953" (about a young Plath), endorsed on @SlateCultFest,: writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/… 9:49 PM May 9th via web
IPAonline We deeply regret to inform you that Dr. Jean Laplanche author of "The Language of Psycho-Analysis" passed away at... fb.me/1Q2N19QwC 3:56 PM May 7th via Facebook Retweeted by cforster and 12 others
@PatrickCFleming What @ryancordell said; in my experience it was (like orals) a fundamentally underwhelming experience. 9:09 PM May 9th via web in reply to PatrickCFleming
@NSForster Ug; that sucks. Sorry to hear it Nick. 8:55 PM May 9th via web in reply to NSForster
Jaynedolluk Here's a bit more about Parade's End (new Benedict Cumberbatch drama adapted from Ford Madox Ford's novels) dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/arti… 12:44 AM May 6th via web Retweeted by cforster and 41 others
"The 'dismal's fine--it's science where they patently prevaricate." You'll probably see this a lot today: xkcd.com/1052/ 6:23 AM May 7th via web
aedison Subscribe to an idealized standard of beauty, and get two issues free! 2:25 PM May 5th via Birdhouse Retweeted by cforster and 14 others

Name Chris Forster
Location Charlottesville, VA
Web http://www.cforst...
Bio Shannon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia. Research interests in modernism, material culture, and digital humanities. Linux & Emacs User.