1) Kate and I went to a New Year’s party at the home of a colleague in Math, whose kids got a Wii for Christmas. We spent a while playing with it, and it’s way more interesting than any other gaming system I’ve seen in years. 2) Windows Vista sucks ass. Evidence: It is incapable… Continue reading Hey to Mike Kozlowski
Fred Clark, Jim Henley, and Daniel Davies
Timothy Burke is disgusted with the New York Times, and soliciting nominations of people who would be more interesting on the Op-Ed page than the Times‘s current stable of established writers: As an extension of my last post, let me start the nominations for online writers that you feel like could serve as better columnists… Continue reading Fred Clark, Jim Henley, and Daniel Davies
links for 2008-01-03
A Wily Road Warrior’s Airport Tips Frank Luntz on how to survive modern air travel. (tags: travel society US) Drivers on cell phones clog traffic I am shocked– shocked!– to learn that talking on the phone impairs drivers. (tags: psychology US stupid science news) Jon Swift: Best Blog Posts of 2007 (Chosen by the Bloggers… Continue reading links for 2008-01-03
History Jobs and Statistics
Over at Inside Higher Ed, they’ve posted a report on the job market in history, which finds that there are more jobs than new Ph.D.’s, but that American and European history are overrepresented in the candidate pool, relative to the number of jobs. It also includes this comment about the number of degreees awarded to… Continue reading History Jobs and Statistics
Japan Photo Albums
As a Christmas present for her grandparents, Kate put together a coupld of albums of pictures from our Japan trip, including this shot of What Japanese Commuter Trains Look Like to Me: (That was taken standing up looking straight ahead on a train from Tokyo to Yokohama. The Japanese have the best trains in the… Continue reading Japan Photo Albums
links for 2008-01-02
Pop Culture News: Popdose.com The new group music/ pop culture blog from Jeff Giles, Jason Hare, Py Korry, and others. Future home of Chart Attack! and Adventures Through the Mines of Mellow Gold. Adjust your RSS feeds accordingly. (tags: music culture blogs television movies) The World Question Center 2008 “What have you changed your mind… Continue reading links for 2008-01-02
The Year in Blogging, 2007
Because it’s not science without graphs: That’s the traffic for this blog for 2007. If you integrate the area under the curve, you get a total of 833,275 page views for the year, which is, frankly, kind of astonishing. That’s up from last year’s total of 574,676, so I guess the goal for 2008 is… Continue reading The Year in Blogging, 2007
links for 2008-01-01
Popless Week Zero: Stopping In The Name Of Love | The A.V. Club Noel Murray plans to spend 2008 not listenins to any new music– old songs only. (tags: music review culture) Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: God, Fashion, Affect The hot new books at the… Continue reading links for 2008-01-01
Happy Arbitrary Numerical Signifier
There’s really no global significance to January 1– it’s not even universally acknowledged as the start of a new year– but it’s good now and then to take a little time to reflect on things. As a culture, Americans tend to be fairly bad at this (we’re a low albedo nation), but we’ve built two… Continue reading Happy Arbitrary Numerical Signifier
links for 2007-12-31
The Bush administration’s dumbest legal arguments of the year. – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine “3) Alberto Gonzales: I am forced to put the former attorney general into his own category only because were I to attempt to round up his best legal whoppers of the calendar year, it would overwhelm the rest of… Continue reading links for 2007-12-31