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Tweets
- RT @kjhealy: The scary things that can happen when you attempt to film Swedish police officers: http://bit.ly/b8Kus7 3 hours ago
- NYS to get wireless--believe it when I see the bars: http://is.gd/dTiwi 5 hours ago
- Daft Punk's Tron Legacy sountrack leaked: http://is.gd/dTf3m 5 hours ago
- I need to either learn more languages or trim my twitter feeds. Guess which one will win? 1 day ago
- No net yesterday *should* mean I got lots of work done, if we agree that the net is a distraction. Nope. 1 day ago
- Twitter peer review? http://needle.csail.mit.edu/wgat/ 2 days ago
- RT @eszter: trust in SEs paper http://webuse.org/p/a30 has gotten some press: http://bit.ly/drFMPx http://bit.ly/cyg1k8 http://bit.ly/bhjNnD 2 days ago
- RT @PublicAgenda: The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers http://nyti.ms/ar1xL9 Teaching For A Living http://bit.ly/6ZMoTS 2 days ago
- Interesting column (and comments) on the virtues and dangers of anonymity in comments (and Buff News experiment): http://is.gd/dOJz6 2 days ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Invisibility on demand
I dig encephalopods. As one of the brightest creatures, I sometimes wonder why they didn’t develop an advanced society.
At one point faculty at one of my former schools had considered teaching a course in animal communication (well outside any of our areas of expertise) in which each faculty member would come in and talk [...]
Check this out: Informatics Dissolution
Jim Milles, Law Librarian extraordinaire, webcasts a periodic podcast called Check This Out!. The most recent episode (mp3) provides the voices of 19 of the graduate students in the program.
Those voices are bit difficult to make out in places, but if you are interested in what is happening with the School, this makes for [...]
New York Under Water
The city has released a new hurricane evacuation plan (NY Daily News: “‘Cane & able plan”), so that we don’t all die when a category 5 hits the city. Since we still haven’t packed a “go bag”, we’re probably less prepared than we have been in any other house. If there is an evacuation, the [...]
N.O. faces new threat
The transvestites, Ogle said, appear to be drug-addicted and fearless in their lust for designer shoes, jackets and jewelry.
Now here’s a gang problem you don’t see every day: Transvestite gang pesters Magazine Street. You would think that if you were going to be running from store owners, UPS delivery folks, and the police, high heels [...]
Big Brother Eyes
You may notice some weirdness around here while I monkey with the blog, making it (as always) simpler.
My original plan was a picture of my eyes like this (click for full size):
But my design critic / spouse rejected it as “super creepy,” so I’m back to the drawing board.
Turns out, she may have [...]
Help: China Expert
A friend is representing a Falun Gong practitioner who is seeking asylum in the United States. They are looking for a qualified China expert (one who could be qualified as an expert in US courts) who would be willing to testify as to the conditions in China at present. Ideally, this is someone in New [...]
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