Miscellania

Over at Crooked Timber they're talking about assigned reading for high school kids, and how one guy assigned American Gods by Neil Gaiman, and got some interesting responses. There's also a mildly amusing comment thread about what vocabulary young nerds learned from fantasy novels and comic books.

Quit complaining about your job. The first picture is actually pretty awesome.

Science doesn't really have an explanation yet as to why humans like listening to music, but what they've discovered about it so far is still pretty interesting.

Plus I just realised that the D4 were in both of the Big Day Out announcements so far. I guess they must have meant The Datsuns the first time, but got them confused.