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- 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 hr ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 7 hrs ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 1 day ago
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 3 days ago
- Filming a congressional hearing? Be ready to be arrested for it. http://t.co/C7fuwy9k #fb 4 days ago
- Campus is changing to require password updates 2x a year. Their recommendation for a "tough" password: @Qu2012! Yeah. #fb 5 days ago
- Maybe the AAA (http://t.co/2S4falTt) should listen to @cshirky ToTN (http://t.co/EAs81JRv). 5 days ago
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Well-liked, not well-known
Quinnipiac’s Polling Institute (with which I have no affiliation, beyond being at the same university) has recently released their “thermometer poll,” which asks respondents to simply indicate how “warm” they are to particular politicians, with 100 being warm and 0 being cold. The mean figures are as follows, with the parenthetical numbers indicating the percent [...]
Old VW, New VW
Put the old Jetta on the auction block. Now I have a new one that looks just like this: It’s with the sport package, which adds tighter handling to the 280HP 3.6l engine. Yes, the paddle shifters are fun–and no, they are not particularly practical. The AWD will be far more practical for the Connecticut [...]
Thesis Defended: Chheng-Hong Ho
Congratulations go to Chheng-Hong Ho, who successfully defended his thesis Negotiating Motherhood Using ICTs in Taiwan-US Transnational Households this morning, at the University at Buffalo. (I was chair and Mary Cassata the second member of the committee.) The work consists of interviews of members of families using IM and chat to communicate between the US [...]
Quinnipiac: Sports uber alles?
Every week, Quinnipiac University shows up in newspapers on the East Coast. The most likely reason for the name appearing is a citation to a poll completed by the excellent Quinnipiac Polling Institute. If it’s not that, then it is the aggressively competitive Quinnipiac sports teams. Unfortunately, the most recent sports news out of Quinnipiac [...]
Cosi
Went to see City Opera’s Cosi fan tutte tonight (you know, the version without Natalie Portman). The 85 year-old Rudel, the original director of the NYC Opera, has returned to direct a short run of the familiar opera, and the house was packed. We had a great pair of seats, with thanks to the anonymous [...]
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“Civil Rights”
Erik Strohmeyer, a student in one of my grad seminars, is writing about how key phrases are shaped in political rhetoric. One of those phrases he is looking at is “civil rights.” He just did a search of the phrase in the New York Times index over the last century-and-a-half. I took a look at [...]
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