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Tweets
- Someone has been kind enough to point out that this is *exactly* the luck of the Irish, BTW. (I am irony-blind!) 2 days ago
- Microsoft keeps bugging me. http://alex.halavais.net/ms-for-your-protection 2 days ago
- I do not have the luck of the Irish. Got 2 flat tires on my way back from school Weds night. Replacements won't arrive for a week. 2 days ago
- Much better title than "Steal This Book": http://is.gd/aIpF3 6 days ago
- Each year, more of the clocks in my house spring ahead on their own. 1 week ago
- At ikea. Just bought a room's worth of furniture. Power has failed & so no systems for delivery. Sooo, sleeping here tonight? 1 week ago
- Yeah, yeah. Lady Gaga video. But I like the new Kate Nash: http://is.gd/anfMX 1 week ago
- Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year. 1 week ago
- These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1 1 week ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: June 2004
Website Self-Interview
Finn and I are on our own for the summer. As a result, I’ve been talking to myself a lot lately. It’s not so bad in the house, but out in the yard I have to wear an ear-nub so that the neighbors don’t start to talk. Given this practice, I present a self-interview on [...]
Graduate Student Advice
I’ve been thinking of putting together a booklet of advice for new graduate students. To that end, I’ve been collecting similar efforts on a wiki page. If you know of other good examples, please add them. This is what I have so far:
Scattered suggestions on reading in college
Modest advice for graduate students
How to be a [...]
Web Citation Index
Perhaps following up on a distributed conversation on citation indexing among academic blogs (me, David Brake, Seb Paquet), Thomson ISI has announced a new scholarly index of web publications, largely based on the CiteSeer project. I see this as a major positive move, in part because it means that publishing your work to the web [...]
Remaindered Links
* Find Your Inner Republican – Since a bi-partisan group of high-level diplomats and military commanders has come forward to promote “regime change” at home due to the incompetence (their word) of the current administration, it may be worth noting that Republicans can promote good policies. (via Gothamist)
* Life Switch is a very compelling, and [...]
Gmail invite?
Gmail (or should this be the more appropriate link?) seems to be rapidly expanding its beta. If anyone wants an account, I have several invites available. Drop me a note if interested. Oh, and in case you are wondering, it actually is money and power that are my secret, the invites are just icing.
Streets Preview
I’ve had a couple songs from The Streets rotating through my mp3s for a while, but in the last week, I’ve heard their CD playing in two different coffee shops. I guess they don’t fit neatly into a genre, which means they end up in coffee shops. Anyway, James Farmer points to a flash preview [...]
Really Sexy Sindication