Outside Over There: links of interest to outsiders

She went backwards out her window
Into Outside-Over-There....
-- Maurice Sendak

Some Students Live on the Edge -- Article by Rebecca Catalanello in the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail.

Nerd-Outcast-Misfit Resources by Bill Beaty. -- A list of useful links for nerds and geeks.

School Survival Guide, by SoulRiser -- A site for everyone who is or was ever trapped in school.

Why Nerds Are Unpopular -- Article by Paul Graham.

Why It's Good to Be a High School Loser -- Article by Adele Melander-Dayton for Salon.

Sports Daze: Memories of PE -- BBC feature about having to endure physical education classes, with comments from readers.

Martial Arts Classes Take Aim at Bullying -- Article by Chad Miller for the Paragould Daily Press.

Why I Don't Regret My Pokemon Phase -- Article by Mel Turnqvist for Patch.

Want to Beat Back the Bullies? Embrace Your Nerd-Dom -- Article by Leslie Gray Streeter for the Palm Beach Post.

An Apple a Day: Bullying and Steve Jobs -- Article by Kimberly Williams for the Huffington Post.

Carmina Popularia -- Outsiders with an interest in Latin may enjoy this site, which I also create and maintain. It contains Latin translations of various popular songs, such as "Puff, the Magic Dragon," "Leavin' on a Jet Plane," and "I am a Rock." I wrote most of them when I should have been doing my Latin homework in college, but I'm still writing a few new ones now and then.

['Ozy and Millie' comic strip
 about outsiders]

"Ozy and Millie" © 1999 by D.C. Simpson, and appears here by permission.


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