Digital librarian position. Public-service announcement: A very nice gent at Colonial Williamsburg contacted me by email to ask if I’d be interested in this position (hope the link works! if not, surf here and hunt for the Digital Librarian listing). I can’t take it, obviously, as my time is spoken for, the next… [Caveat Lector]

this is an interesting job, i was just talking about digital history and digital humanities the other day

Hear Comes Everybloom. Did you miss Paddy Dignam's wake? Ah well, there's still time to celebrate Bloomsday — if you're in Dublin, you can (among many other delights) take a stroll across the newly-opened James Joyce Bridge. Or, if you have a spare $60,000, you could even buy your very own Ulysses first edition. As for me, I'll be hoisting a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. (And as for Paddy? — Dead! says Alf. He's no more dead than you are. — Maybe so, says Joe. They took the liberty of burying him this morning anyhow.) [MetaFilter]

damn it all, i missed bloomsday, this is the first time in 3 years. with no guiness or irish whiskey at home, it is pointless to do anything other than waive in its general direction and hope someone else drinks my share.

Graduate School Culture. And if I waved a magic wand and fixed all those problems, that would leave… oh, most of the people I went to school with. Some of them quit partway through, feeling like failures; some are still at it; some… [Invisible Adjunct]
avoid it if you can, get a job while you are going to grad school, get someone else to pay, break the mold, etc. but read the post over on invisible adjunct nonethless, the comments are good also.

Games That Should Be Remade [Dungeons And Dreamers]

i agree with many on this list, especially darklands. i hope to be able to play darklands soon because i am getting a dos simulator for os x shortly.

R.I.P., Bernard Williams.

Chris is cataloging obits.

• Guardian
• Times
• Telegraph

[A blog doesn't need a clever name]

Williams was a touchstone for me in my undergraduate work in ethics and philosophy, works like Ethics and the Limit of Philosophy and his work on moral luck, came to me as virtue theory alongside Alasdaire MacIntyre, and others. He provided a model for a publicly engaged iconoclastic philosopher, able to find real problems in philosophy and explain their historical development and implications for contemporary thinking. In short, thoughts and philosophy don't arise outside of historical context and maintain that context to the current day as explanatory device. But if you've not read the any Williams, i recommend it.

I was away at Brian and Julie's Erbe' wedding in richmond, i was in the wedding party(i'm not much for weddings otherwise). It was a nice wedding, lots of family were there. Now I'm back, and I'll post a bit more today.