Forget the footnotes » Blog Archive » how to run an academic department: This is of course exactly as it should be. Academics must be cats, independent-minded and uncontrollable. They should all go off in their own respective directions looking for adventure or trouble. This is why they are academics rather than, say, accountants. Or […]

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FrederickLane.com — 2006-04-26 Lost in MySpace: The 2006 Hawley Foundation Lecture Lost in MySpace:Social Networking, Student Privacy,and Self-Protection Frederick Lane <p>——<p> this looks like an interesting talk.

BOYHOOD STUDIES – Encyclopaideia: A Working Index of Male Initiation/Passage Rituals <p>—–<p> and you thought boys had it simple…..

marcus vick – Google News : Marcus Vick, younger brother of Michael Vick who ran afoul of the law while getting kicked out of Virginia Tech, was not drafted at all

so i went to get some groceries today and they had the flowers out front for sale. i am not one to really pursue the confinement of flowers, but clearly others are. so i thought…. what must the world be like to be a person who really desires to own flowers, to grow them…. is […]

supposedly, you need to have watched these movies to be movie literate. got it from phantomcity, screw kottke 😉 102 Movies: * 2001: A Space Odyssey *The 400 Blows * 8 1/2 * Aguirre, the Wrath of God * Alien # All About Eve * Annie Hall * Apocalypse Now * Bambi * The Battleship […]

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Lightning hits cross, kills five children: Five Mexican children were killed when a large metal cross they were praying at was struck by lightning in central Mexico, local media reported Monday. Five children between 9 and 16 years old died and several others suffered burns when lightning struck a […]

Ananova – Beerbelly is a big success : Beerbelly is a big success The Beerbelly – a secret strap-on beer holder that disguises itself as a bulging beer belly – is being marketed in the US. It was the brainchild of three middle-aged men who wanted a way of sneaking beer into movies and baseball […]

TheStar.com – Jane Jacobs, 89: Urban legend: Jane Jacobs was a writer, intellectual, analyst, ethicist and moral thinker, activist, self-made economist, and a fearless critic of inflexible authority. Mrs. Jacobs died this morning in Toronto. She was 89. <p>——–<p> She wrote one of the classics of all social science, the life and death of great […]