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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 18 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 18 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
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Archives
Monthly Archives: April 2004
Quiet Parties
The idea of quiet parties has been getting some media attention lately, most recently in this article in the Christian Science Monitor. I feel strange commenting on a practice I haven’t experienced first-hand. Despite the sort of dorky “planned event” feel, I wonder if it appeals to those who are more adept with written than [...]
MediaUnbound
Tom Coates alerted me to MediaUnbound. a new preferences engine for selecting music. I won’t comment much on the flash-based interface, except to suggest that it feels a bit like a hearing test. I will say that I am pretty impressed with the way it captured my tastes in music. I’ve played with a number [...]
Fetish
One of the things we sometimes talk about in my theory courses is the idea of the fetish. We compare Freud’s description of the origin of the fetish with that of Durkheim and of Marx–different fetishes, similar mechanisms. But the approach to fetishes for the Cyberporn class will need to be somewhat different. The focus [...]
Of Erdosing
Given that I am now the #1 hit for “self-googling” it makes sense that I would also want to acquire a lower Erdos number. My current number is infinity. Luckily, 5 is for sale on ebay. I’m less interested in the Erdos number than I am in the idea of selling collaboration. So, of course [...]
Because we tango
“Now we are a decent couple,” Bin likes to say, “Because we tango.” This from Jia’s site, which had literally dropped off my radar because blogspot wasn’t offering RSS. Now it is, and I can read her blog again. It’s funny: an unsyndicated blog now doesn’t exist for me.
Scholars Who Blog
Earlier this year, Seb Paquet suggested that someone should aggregate the lists of scholars who blog found at the Blogalization wiki, at Crooked Timber, a list on his wiki, a list on delicious, and Jill Walker’s list. Well, it’s a bit late, but here it is: an aggregated list of over 400 scholarly blogs. I [...]
Googling Myself