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