I just heard from my friend Courtney Bender that Robert K. Merton died this morning. He was 92 years old. Merton was one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century. He was born in 1910 (as Meyer Schkolnick) in Philadelphia to immigrant parents. He taught at Columbia for almost his whole career, from […]
Further messing with Movable Type plugins, designed to widen the distance between myself and the great unwashed masses trapped on BlogSpot. I installed SmartyPants and MT-Textile. SmartyPants gives typographically correct quotes “like this” (or ‘like this’) and also—hurray!—correct em-dashes as well as … wait for it … proper ellipses.
MT-Textile implements Dean Allen’s excellent Textile markup […]
I upgraded to Movable Type version 2.62 and took the opportunity to install the MTAmazon plugin, which lets me more or less automatically plug into Amazon’s search system and have Movable Type parse the results. The upshot for you is the little reading list off to the side there. As time goes […]
Two mentions on Junius today. First, let me say that when Chris says “Kieran Healy has persuaded me of … the beauty of LaTeX” he of course means the wonderfully powerful, free, professional-grade typesetting system designed by the great Donald Knuth. You weren’t thinking he could have meant anything else, now were you?
Chris also brings […]
Kevin Drum sets off an intellectual WMD on his blog, writing about IQ and race. Sit back and watch the fallout spread across the blogosphere, with lots of posts of varying degrees of anger, tortuousness and smugness, depending. I could write a lot about this topic, but I’ll limit myself to two points. Kevin […]
The Dept of Homeland Security would like to take this opportunity to explain the current political situation to you all.
Reports about North Korea are disturbing. We don’t want to act as though the sky is falling on our heads…But North Korea’s Nuclear capability is quite frightening. The CIA says their ballistic missiles could hit the […]
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