Kieran Healy

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea. Rockall. Fair Isle. Faeroes.

Valencia. West by North Four. Three Miles. One Thousand and Twenty Five. Rising slowly.

Ahh, bliss. You don’t hear that out in the desert. Especially when, as now, the daily high is around 110*F. The shipping forecast is like cool, rainy civilization in an audio stream.

Google API and Movable Type Hack

Messing around with Movable Type, the software that runs this weblog, I came across this very nice hack to its capabilities. Movable Type is able to talk to Google, using the Google API. This little hack has each log entry automatically run a search on Google for the terms in the item title—- in this […]

Catholic Church Abuse Policy One-Liner

I just read this on Slate’s `Breakfast Table’:

Returning to Sutton’s after a couple of weeks away in Washington, I settle into a vacant counter seat and inquire what people have been talking about in my absence. “Top three” I’m told, are “the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church, and the Catholic Church.” From the end of […]

Creativity, the Culture Industries and the New Economy (No Such Thing)

Now that Ireland have been knocked out of the World Cup (a tragedy, but never mind), I’ve had to figure out what else to do besides watch the game when I get up much too early. Catching up on backlogged work is, alas, the obvious choice.

I just finished a first draft of a paper called […]

Good company

Hey, if Brad DeLong uses the same software as me to run his weblog, then I can’t be doing everything wrong. If you don’t know who Brad DeLong is, now’s your chance to find out. Visit his website: I strongly recommend it.

Digital Tech and Cultural Goods paper

I got the proofs of my “Digital Technology and Cultural Goods” paper this weekend. It will appear later this year in the Journal of Political Philosophy. Nice to see that some journals now distribute proofs in PDF format: it makes the correction phase faster, as well as making it easier to make a good copy […]