Archive for February, 2009
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Haunting poem.
Leddy on academic entitlement.
Why I don't use "lol" in emails. Example 2 is the killer.
Brooks on the benevolent power of institutional thinking.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? Wonder no more with the Ground Zero Calculator. [via Librarian of Fortune]
Related ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
My previous post Fred Stutzman and Facebook reminded me of an essay from the May/August 2000 issue of North American Review.
The essay I tore out and kept in my "Essays" folder lo these many years was by the writer Norman Lavers, now retired from teaching English and enthusiastically maintaining ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
Fred Stutzman is a PhD student at SILS and the creator of numerous good things, among them ClaimID and the Mac-based Freedom (which I used today to good effect).
He has a blog, Unit Structures, and tends to post announcements of upcoming events ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Penelope Trunk trots out one of her regularly visited themes: why grad school is a bad idea. It rankled me a bit but I do have to remember that she's talking to twenty-somethings and I'm a forty-odder.
Her advice would be right-on to my 23-year-old self: I had very little direction, ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Cover of 7 Up
Since our 780 Research Methods class doesn’t have a Blackboard site for the class, I’ll post my various links and thoughts to the blog, tagged with “780.”
I wonder if Michael Apted’s wonderful Up series of documentary interviews would be an example of a kinda ...
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