2007-04-18

nancylebov: blue moon (Default)
2007-04-18 09:33 am

Ordinary human variation at prosper.com

Prosper.com is a website for bringing lenders and borrowers together without the mediation of banks. Brilliant experiment in human trust? Home for suckers and scammers? The usual mix of cooperation, competition, and weirdness? Definitely that last...and here's the article about it.
nancylebov: blue moon (Default)
2007-04-18 09:33 am

Ordinary human variation at prosper.com

Prosper.com is a website for bringing lenders and borrowers together without the mediation of banks. Brilliant experiment in human trust? Home for suckers and scammers? The usual mix of cooperation, competition, and weirdness? Definitely that last...and here's the article about it.
nancylebov: blue moon (Default)
2007-04-18 11:21 am

The Eye of Argon, literary classic

Last night, I found out that [livejournal.com profile] esmeraldachubb and [livejournal.com profile] laughing_fox had never heard of The Eye of Argon. While it's a little weak on conventional stylistic virtues, it's given more pleasure to more people than a great many carefully polished works.

After having said "lithe opaque nose" several times and explained that a way of enjoying this unique masterpiece is to to have a group attempt to read it out loud (including the typos)--you pass the story to the next person as soon as you start laughing, I promised to post a link.

The last page was found recently and is included in the link above, but here's an critique which claims it doesn't match the style of the very original original.
nancylebov: blue moon (Default)
2007-04-18 11:21 am

The Eye of Argon, literary classic

Last night, I found out that [livejournal.com profile] esmeraldachubb and [livejournal.com profile] laughing_fox had never heard of The Eye of Argon. While it's a little weak on conventional stylistic virtues, it's given more pleasure to more people than a great many carefully polished works.

After having said "lithe opaque nose" several times and explained that a way of enjoying this unique masterpiece is to to have a group attempt to read it out loud (including the typos)--you pass the story to the next person as soon as you start laughing, I promised to post a link.

The last page was found recently and is included in the link above, but here's an critique which claims it doesn't match the style of the very original original.