Archive for the ‘Link Harvest’ Category
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
"A comparison of the 2008 population — using data from a variety of sources — with the first census in 1881 shows that the number of Cocks has shrunk by 75 per cent..." Read the rest for the context.
How to e-mail a professor. They may not notice, but then again, ...
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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]
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
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Doomsday for 2009 is ... Saturday.
Mary Ellen Bates says goodbye to several Google apps, and ponders Microsoft's persistent relevance. I'll miss Google Notebook, myself.
Better ways to run a workshop. And some damn fine YouTube examples of Patrick McGoohan at work.
Chris Blattman summarizes Rapture indicators from ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Economic downturn hitting public libraries. Also, library fines.
Another popularly focused article on the digital dark age; it proposes using open-source rather than proprietary file formats.
The best suit for your body type.
Proto-scholar learns the hard way to ask the right people for process advice. No one would blame her for feeling ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Narrative and novels as models for social relations and as simulations of economic approaches.
First in a series of BBC4 radio programs on what the novelist's imagination can offer sociological research on place. Settings: the rural idyll, the city, and the suburb.
"Once you've restricted yourself to information that turns up in ...
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