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Even for a composer, there's more to life than music. Here's a sampling of sites that I find particularly important, or sufficiently amusing.

Language Log

Sun, 05/18/2008 - 12:14pm — Nathan
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Language Log
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Language is a wonderful phenomenon. The contributors at Language Log -- notable linguists from all parts of the country, and occasionally the globe -- find inspiration for their linguistic commentary in all sorts of places, from scholarly publications to presidential debates to newspaper headlines to The Simpsons. LL often leaves me wishing I had enrolled in a linguistics class or two during college.

xkcd

Fri, 05/23/2008 - 1:28am — Nathan
AKA: 
Randall Munroe
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xkcd
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XKCD may be one of the best representations of geek culture, and I don't just mean the computer science jokes and sci-fi references. I mean the mindset that says, "Hey, I just got a wacky idea, and I want to share it with everyone!" "Okay!"