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Tweets
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 1 day ago
- Filming a congressional hearing? Be ready to be arrested for it. http://t.co/C7fuwy9k #fb 1 day ago
- Campus is changing to require password updates 2x a year. Their recommendation for a "tough" password: @Qu2012! Yeah. #fb 2 days ago
- Maybe the AAA (http://t.co/2S4falTt) should listen to @cshirky ToTN (http://t.co/EAs81JRv). 3 days ago
- I believe it is presently colder in my office than it is outside. But they have screwed shut my window, so I can't check. 4 days ago
- Chatting with Ron & Jon about "interactive media" on Hangout live. (Still getting a handle on the process.) http://t.co/0V7qKRIF 6 days ago
- Seems that an old blog post of mine, "Does Mitt Romney Hate Noodles" is suddenly getting new traffic: http://t.co/ELSrWuHG 6 days ago
- More updates...
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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 Panglossian View of the Depression