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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!) 19 hours ago
- Microsoft keeps bugging me. http://alex.halavais.net/ms-for-your-protection 20 hours 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. 22 hours ago
- Much better title than "Steal This Book": http://is.gd/aIpF3 4 days ago
- Each year, more of the clocks in my house spring ahead on their own. 5 days ago
- At ikea. Just bought a room's worth of furniture. Power has failed & so no systems for delivery. Sooo, sleeping here tonight? 6 days 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: January 2009
Why I am not a Liberal – part 1
When we lived in Buffalo, I made, maybe, a dozen car trips into Canada. No, not for the ballet; either to eat, or to visit Toronto (“and that’s what’s great about Buffalo”1). In our “post 9/11 world” I always found Canadian border guards to be perfunctory but relatively polite, and American border guards, with rare [...]
What Iceberg?
I’m really disappointed, but I’m giving up on any possibility of getting a paper in for the very interesting looking YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle workshop. I had a small seminar last semester, and we collected and coded a sample of YouTube videos that appeared in mainstream broadcast news, and then looked through the [...]
Search Engine Society – Lecture 1
After some of the discussion of talking heads below, here is the lecture from one of my seminars this semester.
My new school?
Did your jaw drop at the end of that? Mine did.
Is this a bit like a McDonald’s commercial that temporarily blinds you to the fact that they serve grease on cardboard? Doesn’t make me think any worse of the commercial, though.
This caught me at an interesting point, since it seems to wrap up a [...]
A Panglossian View of the Depression