Graduate School Culture. And if I waved a magic wand and fixed all those problems, that would leave… oh, most of the people I went to school with. Some of them quit partway through, feeling like failures; some are still at it; some… [Invisible Adjunct] avoid it if you can, get a job while you […]

Games That Should Be Remade [Dungeons And Dreamers] i agree with many on this list, especially darklands. i hope to be able to play darklands soon because i am getting a dos simulator for os x shortly.

R.I.P., Bernard Williams. Chris is cataloging obits. Guardian Times Telegraph [A blog doesn't need a clever name] Williams was a touchstone for me in my undergraduate work in ethics and philosophy, works like Ethics and the Limit of Philosophy and his work on moral luck, came to me as virtue theory alongside Alasdaire MacIntyre, and […]

I was away at Brian and Julie's Erbe' wedding in richmond, i was in the wedding party(i'm not much for weddings otherwise). It was a nice wedding, lots of family were there. Now I'm back, and I'll post a bit more today.

On his last day in office as Director of the OMB, …. On his last day in office as Director of the OMB, Mitch Daniels gave up on his attempt to let federal agencies outsource their printing jobs and bypass the Government Printing Office (GPO). This is a victory for open access to government documents, […]

Pissed Off. With the world a it is and education – (thanks Dave – I don't know how to link to Blogger) [Robert Paterson's Radio Weblog] Why do some people express their anger so eloquently and others just resort to expletives? Who are you more likely to listen to? [A Man with a Ph.D. – […]

Color Me Creeped Out. Researchers Can Track Our Every Media Move “Technology is hurtling along, offering a wide assortment of Orwellian options to gauge viewing and listening preferences. As with medicine, however, those advances are coming faster than we can sort out their implications and decide how much information we all want our corporate big […]

Similarity. At the back of the conference are some round tables at which people are sitting, laptops sprawling. They're doing what the rest of us are doing: listening but also IM'ing, checking email from time to time, looking up links. Somehow it reminds me being at a drive-in: there's a movie playing at the front, […]

Intellectually turned on. Few things in life give me greater joy than witnessing (if only from afar) another's intellectual excitement and imagination.Matt Webb is currently reading D&G's A Thousand Plateaus and taking good notes.I'm on a journey to the centre of my world . [Purse Lip Square Jaw] deleuze and guattari, great material, one of […]

When terrorism was cool. As a new film about the Weather Underground opens, former '60s revolutionary Mark Rudd wonders whatever possessed him — and America. [Salon.com] [A blog doesn't need a clever name] hmm, terrorism wasn't cool, but sometimes when the wheels of the machine become odious, and there is no other option, one has […]