{"id":4993,"date":"2009-12-26T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:47:28","slug":"book-report-the-darwin-awards-ii-by-wendy-northcutt-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/26\/book-report-the-darwin-awards-ii-by-wendy-northcutt-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Darwin Awards II by Wendy Northcutt (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been five years since I read the next volume in the series (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/15\/945\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Darwin Awards 3<\/a><\/em>), wherein the numbering went Arabic instead of Roman.  You know, what I said about that book also applies to this book, really.  It&#8217;s a digest of Web site postings.  The essays that introduce each chapter still annoyed me.<\/p>\n<p>But five years later, I&#8217;m less amused by the anecdotes of creative deaths.  Maybe I&#8217;m getting older, maybe I&#8217;m moping through the first holiday season without my mother, but I&#8217;m just not as into the concept as I had been five years ago or when I first sat in my TALXware training session in 1998 and read the site after finishing up an easy exercise in writing an IVR script.<\/p>\n<p>But, to say something nice about it, it&#8217;s as good as any other in the series as I&#8217;ve read.  There&#8217;s some faint praise for it.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=stlbrianj-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;asins=0452284015\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been five years since I read the next volume in the series (The Darwin Awards 3), wherein the numbering went Arabic instead of Roman. You know, what I said about that book also applies to this book, really. It&#8217;s a digest of Web site postings. The essays that introduce each chapter still annoyed me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34774,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions\/34774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}