Here’s a great tidbit from McSweeney’s: Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals That Cost Me Marks on My Thesis. My favorite:

3 Who, although a gifted academic, is still a douche.

Full marks for honesty.

Via Kottke.

A link to the site for Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games class at Trinity University. The student page includes PDFs of term papers with great titles like “Strangers in strange lands: Virtual worlds and the newbie experience” and “From N00b to L33t: Learning strategies in Everquest II.” I haven’t had a chance to go through everything yet, but it looks really interesting.

• Games for the Web