John Quiggin is wishing for a custom menu in his wordprocessor with an option to “Convert Random Factoid and Sentence Fragments to Scintillating Prose.” He is not being nearly ambitious enough. Thanks to a handy extension I picked up a few years ago, I have all kinds of other productivity enhancements built into the applications […]
The Chronicle article on academic bloggers has just been published. I’m quoted in it a couple of times, the first time saying “One person’s ‘distributed journalism’ is another person’s echo chamber,” and the second time saying that this blog is not the main focus of my career. (Although I have considered listing my posts as […]
Liz Lawley and Brad DeLong run across Mark Granovetter’s classic 1973 article, “The Strength of Weak Ties”. It’s well worth reading. If you’re interested, you can check out the syllabus for the Economic Sociology seminar I taught last Fall. (Update: Whoops, the link goes to the right syllabus now.)
Liz seems mainly interested in using […]
David Adesnik has been taking some flak about his mistaken belief that Windows is somehow a better operating system than Mac OS X. Having been a confirmed Linux nerd for several years, I now divide my time equally between OS X and Linux. I bought a PowerBook late last year. Since getting it, I’ve […]
David Adesnik has a long post ruminating on some complaints by Kevin Drum on the amazingly rapid rise in income and wealth inequality in the United States over the past twenty five years or so. Kevin does some basic math to calculate how the increase in GDP over that time would have been distributed if […]
Jean Baudrillard (Apologetic): I’m sorry I’m so late for dinner, dear, I got stuck at the office. Have I missed everything?
Mrs Baudrillard (Annoyed): Welcome to the dessert of the meal.
I know there’s a genre of these jokes waiting to be born.
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