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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 1 hr ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 17 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 17 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 2 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: January 2004
The moon?
Last night I watched the entertaining L’Auberge espagnole (worth seeing if only for the excellent ending), which made me wish I spoke French, Spanish, and Catalan. The first of these is most within my short-term grasp, so I’ve taken a cue from Tim Bray and signed up for an RSS feed from Libération. As Montesquieu [...]
I’m dumb
Ever been to a party where it was clear you were simply out of it? Or you go to a gallery opening, and the art is just — you know, de guistibus and all that — but it is objectively uninspired, yet people you think highly of are cooing over it. That’s what the whole [...]
Walls in Cyberspace
The first year I was in graduate school, I put up an essay called “Walls in Cyberspace” (which, I am embarrassed to discover, can be found in the Internet Archive). I was, by the way, being intentionally provacative and reactionary, but that was not the way some read it. As usual, I was too subtle [...]
Bush minus 30 seconds
The finalists for the Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest are up. Some of these are just not very good, while several are quite affecting (not the same as effective, mind you). I am partial to the message in the In My Country ad, not surprisingly given a similar post I made a while back. [...]
Rethinking media literacy
Henry Jenkins, who continually impresses me with his ability to identify and make sense of some of the most important “big ideas” related to media and society, has a short column on the need for a new kind of media literacy. I’m not certain his view of the current state of media literacy as advocating [...]
Resolving
In Japan, the end of the year is celebrated with a chain of bonenkai, or “forgetting the year parties”; institutionalized forgetting, replete with alcohol: a long-favored technology of forgetting. Rather than publicly rehash my extravagant and largely unrealized resolutions of last year (they are in the archives), I am going to go against one of [...]
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