Tag Archives: Quotes

Circus

By alex | Published: 5/31/2004
Hadn’t run across this one before… When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. – Edward R. Murrow
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Because we tango

By alex | Published: 4/20/2004
“Now we are a decent couple,” Bin likes to say, “Because we tango.” This from Jia’s site, which had literally dropped off my radar because blogspot wasn’t offering RSS. Now it is, and I can read her blog again. It’s funny: an unsyndicated blog now doesn’t exist for me.
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Instant Bibliomancy!

By alex | Published: 4/15/2004
Caught a link through PLSJ to a little fun with instant bibliomancy (the art of foretelling the future by reading random passages from books). Here’s what you do: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal […]
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Square-rigged ships and scholarly communication

By alex | Published: 3/15/2004
Everyone’s already read As We May Think, but a reminder cannot hurt: Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose. If the aggregate time spent in writing scholarly works and in reading them could be evaluated, the ratio between these […]
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