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About “Kevin MacDonald, a tenured full professor of psychology who has devoted much of his work to studying Jews and what he considers the “evolutionary” way Jewish people band together, in part to undercut white society in the United States”
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.. or for any other buddy icon
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important advice for what to do if your cell phone gets stolen
Archive for April, 2007
Links for 2007-04-27
Friday, April 27th, 2007Links for 2007-04-26
Thursday, April 26th, 2007-
NBER paper
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requires R
Links for 2007-04-25
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Links for 2007-04-24
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007-
“Charting the network of jocks, gadget hounds, political junkies, and porn aficionados”
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“Paula Fass, who helped pioneer the study of the history of childhood, will be installed in June as president of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.”
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“The white people have theirs, and the black people have theirs. It’s nothing racial at all.” – Ouch!
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“Yahoo’s first-quarter revenue was $1.67 billion, less than half Google’s $3.66 billion.”
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very impressive
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nice
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an interesting bit from Google Maps
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some serious card creations
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first the regular Simpson intro and then a cute evolution of Homer Simpson
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a bit too graphic at the end, but otherwise cute
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bookmarked in preparation for my trip to Dublin June 2007
Links for 2007-04-23
Monday, April 23rd, 2007-
story from October, 2001
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a snowflake maker by Barkley Interactive, very cute and fun
Links for 2007-04-22
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007-
cultural diversity at risk if these changes go through
Links for 2007-04-20
Friday, April 20th, 2007-
“Just hours after a student at Virginia Tech went on a killing spree that claimed 33 lives Monday, speculators began snatching up domain names related to the shooting.”
Links for 2007-04-19
Thursday, April 19th, 2007-
Pew Internet and American Life report
Links for 2007-04-18
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007-
super parody of 80s videos
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direct numbers to operators at businesses
Links for 2007-04-13
Friday, April 13th, 2007Links for 2007-04-11
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007-
good topic
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very funny parody
Links for 2007-04-10
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007-
historic heights in smoking on US movie screens [thanks]
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response to the Kathy Sierra incident
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WaPo op-ed arguing against laptops in the classroom; yeah, I don’t like them in seminar situations and discourage their use (although I haven’t banned them in the past)
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absolutely!
Links for 2007-04-09
Monday, April 9th, 2007-
Nielsen/NetRatings data
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funny graffiti
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register now for free access “for life”
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US thrift store directory
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find photos on Flickr by color
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transgender students at women’s colleges
Charles in space
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Few people with an interest in space travel have the resources to make that dream a reality. In a few minutes, Charles Simonyi will be one of those people. He’s among the few space tourists who’ve paid the $20-$25 million for the experience. He has been chronicling his adventures at charlesinspace.com, an interesting and informative Web site where users can get answers about the various aspects of his preparation and travel. (You can watch the launch live here or click on the link above to choose your preferred player.)
I had the opportunity to meet Charles Simonyi last October when I was in the Seattle area giving a talk at Microsoft Research. I consider my experience a classic case of cultural capital at work. Both of us having grown up in Budapest – and it turns out just a few blocks from each other, although a few decades apart – likely was not enough of a reason for him to bother responding to my email. Rather, I suspect it was our shared interest in the Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely that prompted him to invite me for a tour of his house. It was super fun, Charles Simonyi has some wonderful works by Vasarely and others, and I very much enjoyed the opportunity to see his collection.
We also took a brief tour of his library in which he has some interesting original documents related to space travel. His passion for the topic is obvious and contagious. I look forward to the updates on his site about this amazing adventure.
In the above picture, I stand next to Charles Simonyi (he’s holding my father’s book The Martians of Science) with a Vasarely sculpture behind us. Photo credit goes to Marc Smith who kindly invited and hosted me on this visit to MSR.
Links for 2007-04-07
Saturday, April 7th, 2007-
.. while they continue to fund other internships that are not in line with Catholic beliefs
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Passover Tip
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Two of my favorite cities, Zurich and Geneva top the list
Photo updates
Friday, April 6th, 2007I’ve been doing lots of fun things recently much of which I’ve documented, of course.:)
So here are some links to photo sets on Flickr. I also link to the slideshow version. I think those work best if you tweak the timing to no more than 2 seconds per image, just slide the bar in the upper right corner of the tool.
- I visited New York and New Jersey two weeks ago (had fun going to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and enjoyed some wonderful cooking such as chocolate soufflé, not by me, I’m afraid). [slideshow]
- I got to see and learn about Northern California native wildflowers at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve last Saturday. [slideshow]
- I went to San Francisco last Sunday, admired the great trees in front of City Hall, saw some great Asian art at the Asian Art Museum plus also went to catch a glimpse of the city from Twin Peaks. Perhaps not even realizing it was April Fool’s Day, we had some fun. [slideshow]
Links for 2007-04-06
Friday, April 6th, 2007-
a funny Flickr set
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when you go to Google Maps (link), click on My Maps to start creating your own annotated maps; I am so glad GMaps is finally offering this; there are third-party sites that do this, but they were unreliable and would often disappear after you’d put in a b
Links for 2007-04-05
Thursday, April 5th, 2007-
“Princeton University on Tuesday announced a package of new benefits designed to make graduate school more ‘family friendly.’”
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interesting rememberance of horrific events in WWII Hungary
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great dessert from matzos
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NBER working paper by Heckman and Masterov
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some of these are definitely LOL funny
Links for 2007-04-04
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007-
“the language-learning social network based on Skype”
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two lawyers comment on use of SNS by college students (free PR?)
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report based on UK data [thanks]
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Anyone know anything about this? I haven’t had time to check it out yet.
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notes by Liz Henry from the Social Media Consensus Workshop I attended last week in Palo Alto (hosted at Social Text)
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different
From Firstborns to Chewbacca in between matzo ball soup and matzo munchies
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007Who says there are no benefits to blogging? If it wasn’t for my participation over at Crooked Timber then I would never have met Matt Gordon and would never have been invited to his wonderful Seder last night. Thanks, Matt!
We talked about lots of things, among them how most Haggadahs lack enough information for a newcomer to really get the Passover story while making the central role of He Who Has No Name unmistakable (even while the rest of the story might remain a bit blurry and I don’t just mean because of the amount of wine consumed).
But we also talked about other things, for example: how one comes to name machines in one’s lab. Perhaps not surprising given my previous post, the machines in my lab have Star Wars references. This idea dates back to the machines in the offices of one of my college mentors: Joe had a big black Next machine that was called Darth and the little white Mac I used was called Yoda. So when I started populating my lab with machines I named the white one Yoda and the two black ones Darth and Vader.
Thanks to recent expansions, I’ve been buying additional hardware so I’ve had to come up with new names. I finalized these yesterday: the iMac is R2-D2, the new Dell desktop is Chewbacca and the two ThinkPads are Han Solo and Falcon. (Jacob will be happy to note that these are all real Star Wars characters.)
I’m curious: what names do other people give machines in their labs? This is not about being silly, by the way. It becomes incredibly tedious to talk about “the computer that’s next to the back wall near the printer” so having names serves an important function.
Regarding the Passover meal, the food was wonderful all around. Thanks to Matt’s friend Love for bringing some great matzo munchies, a treat I’d never tried before. Matt’s (and CC’s) cooking was awesome, too, as was the flourless chocolate cake by another guest Lisa.