In what is, alas, probably too deadpan to be an April Fools’ joke, Mark Wilson offers a breathtaking suggestion on Inside Higher Ed: I propose that all academics with research specialties, no matter how arcane (and nothing is too obscure for Wikipedia), enroll as identifiable editors of Wikipedia. We then watch over a few wikipages… Continue reading Edit Wars: Now With Extra Credentials!
Month: April 2008
links for 2008-04-02
Anil Dash: Your April Fool’s Day Joke Continues to Suck “The exception, of course, is if you’re doing something truly hysterical or on a magnificent scale. But I fear we won’t run into too many of those.” (tags: blogs internet society stupid) Practical Jokes – Psychology – April Fool! The Purpose of Pranks – New… Continue reading links for 2008-04-02
When You’re Up for Tenure, You’re Never Paranoid Enough
It’s weird how blogs go in cycles– I’ll blog nothing but science for a while, and then flip into Academic Mode, as I have this week, and blog about nothing but tenure issues and academic politics. But, that just seems to be how things work, and the stories catching my eye recently are all about… Continue reading When You’re Up for Tenure, You’re Never Paranoid Enough
Two-Word Lyrics Quiz
In which I steal post ideas from Kate: The following are two-word phrases from songs in my iTunes library that ought to be enough to identify the song in question. Leave your guesses in the comments: Pre-Raphaelite curls Chrome horse Pink torpedo Jasmine tea Ashtray floors Quartet practiced Lickety splitly Burnt sienna Guaranteed personality Danville… Continue reading Two-Word Lyrics Quiz
The Definitive Statement on “Framing” and Expelled
I’ve managed to avoid most of the recent fracas over Expelled and what Matt Nisbet and Chris Mooney have said about it, mostly by unsubscribing from the RSS feeds for most of the participating blogs a few months back. Prescient of me, no? I’ve kept my RSS subscription for Chris’s blog, though, and I read… Continue reading The Definitive Statement on “Framing” and Expelled
Storm World by Chris Mooney
I’m a Bad Blogger. I got a free review copy of this book last summer, and it’s taken me nine months to getting around to reviewing it. I started it as soon as I got it, but it seemd like it would be tempting fate to take it to St. John on vacation, and then… Continue reading Storm World by Chris Mooney
links for 2008-04-01
Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer People suck. (tags: internet computing medicine evil stupid) Word Munger » One-letter google searches The alphabet, according to Google. (tags: internet computing silly) The Gashlycrumb Tinies “M is for Maud who was swept out to sea/ N is for Neville who dies of ennui” (tags: books comics silly art… Continue reading links for 2008-04-01