Archive for January, 2005
Bigotry
Krugman, after showing that Bush’s “claim that blacks get a bad deal from Social Security is false” (because the higher death rate among blacks is mostly due to the high number of deaths among young men, not blacks who have held down jobs all their life), he proceeds to attack Bush on the grounds that […]
Donate
Up till now I’ve resisted putting a “donate” button on my site. But the fact is that I now have over 500 people a day visiting the site and if out of all those readers I got $11 a month the site would be self-supporting.
As an added incentive to give even more money, I am […]
You Bet Your Life
Robert Dwan, who directed the show “You Bet Your Life,” with Groucho Marx, on both the radio and television, died last Friday at the age of 89. I learned about it from his daughter, the documentary filmmaker Judith Dwan Hallet, who is a family friend. It is clear from both the obituary, and this interview […]
Blistering Barnacles
Since finishing my dissertation and getting back from our trip, I’ve been in “cleanup mode”: not only physically cleaning up my desk which looked like it had been through a tsunami, but also ridding my life of all those things which had accumulated like barnacles over the past few years but which I don’t really […]
isbn.nu [Feeds]
I haven’t posted anything in my “Feeds” category for a while - mostly because people seem to be catching on as to how useful RSS feeds can be. However, just today I learned about this handy new feed from isbn.nu. Although my favorite site for comparing book prices is addall.com, they don’t offer RSS feeds. […]
corpus.google.com
Via Languag Log, which is mentioned in the article, a great piece in The Economist on the use of the internet to do linguistics research:
Linguists must often correct lay people’s misconceptions of what they do. Their job is not to be experts in “correct” grammar, ready at any moment to smack your wrist for a […]
röckdöts
In a post by Jonathon Delacour, I learned about the differences between umlauts, diaeresis, and röckdöts.
A heavy metal umlaut is an umlaut over letters in the name of a heavy metal band. Umlauts and other diacritics with a blackletter style typeface are a form of foreign branding intended to give a band’s logo a tough […]
Rasranjan’s
We spent most of our time in Ahmedabad in what might be called a “slum ghetto,” but everyone always talks about what a wealthy city it is. So, to see the other side of life in Ahmedabad, we visited the famous Rasranjan restaurant.
This popular place serves traditional Indian street foods in a modern, McDonald’s-like environment.
The […]
India Photos
Here is a selection of my photos from my time in Ahmedabad (my Ahmedabad post):
And here are some from Dehradun (my Dehradun post):
See all my photos from this trip (that I’ve uploaded so far).
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Roundup
Agencies tasked with defending America from terrorism were among the top employers of workers with phony diplomas. (via Scott Sommers)
How crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice?
Ask Mister Language Person.
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