Archive for March, 2005
Minor Edit
Sheesh, make one small edit in a Wikipedia article, and spend the rest of your day justifying it!
{wikipedia, photo}
Papers
There are two kinds of academic conferences: those that require participants to submit their final papers, and those that don’t. Neither the Association for Asian Studies nor the American Anthropological Association require participants to submit a final paper. I consider this to be the main reason that I don’t much care for these conferences. The […]
Death
Death used to be viewed as a natural phenomenon. Now we know better. The average life expectancy of adult humans has more than doubled in the last hundred years, and shows no signs of slowing down. The obvious conclusion from this is that if anyone dies it is because they are lazy. They either failed […]
Chili
I recently described working in a coal mine in China as one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. The most dangerous factory job in the United states, on the other hand, is working in a meat packing plant.
Workers in the U.S. meat and poultry industry endure unnecessarily hazardous work conditions, and the companies […]
Linguistics
Mark Liberman is correct to state that French post-structuralist theory, is not derived from what we, today, consider to be “linguistics,” and if he had left it there I would not have felt compelled to respond. However, I feel he overstates his case when he compares the semiotics of Roland Barthes to a “cargo cult,” […]
Fetish
This is just too weird to ignore.
Scroll down for the punch line.
(via Kevin Drum)
{bush, bald, photos}
Living
Students at Georgetown are fighting to get a living wage for the lowest paid employees at the university. Sign a petition in support of the hunger strikers.
The Georgetown Living Wage Coalition believes that Georgetown has an obligation to its employees and that it must provide them with a wage that is enough to cover the […]
Finance
Campaign Contributions from the Finance/Credit Industry to Current Senators, ‘99-’04
An analysis of the contributions shows that senators who voted to pass the bill raised an average of nearly twice as much between 1999 and 2004 from the finance and credit industry as those who voted against the bill.
As you can see, the difference is […]
Blogroll
I’ve redone my blogroll, which was getting helplessly long. Actually, it was so long that it wasn’t all showing on the site. Because it seems that I discover new and interesting blogs nearly every day, I’ve changed my blogroll to be more meaningful. Now I have two sections: “Favorite Blogs” with those blogs I actually […]
Redesign
The upgrade redesign of Keywords is now complete. Like I said, the new system should allow me to change things even more in the future, and maybe even offer a variety of themes depending on user preferences. However, I could use some feedback on the new design, since I want to make sure it looks […]
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