Regular readers will know that my list of indispensable applications includes the Emacs text editor, the TeX/LaTeX typesetting system,and a whole array of ancillary utilities that make the two play nice together. The goal is to produce beautiful and maintainable documents. Also it gives Dan further opportunity to defend Microsoft Office. I am happy to […]
A long article in New York magazine about Lawrence Lessig’s participation in a lawsuit against the American Boychoir School. A teacher at the school molested boys during the 1970s and Lessig, a former head boy at the school, was one of the victims. He’s now arguing the case in front of the New Jersey Supreme […]
Review of Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.
I’ll admit that I rolled my eyes a little at first. Behold the Freakonomist! “Politically incorrect in the best, most essential way,” said the blurb. A “rogue economist,” who goes out of his way in the first few pages to say he is “afraid of calculus” and […]
So I picked up the original Star Wars trilogy—or, at least, the re-masticated DVD version, Greedo shoots first and all that—mostly out of curiosity. I hadn’t watched the first two in years and I’d never seen Return of the Jedi. I watched most of The Empire Strikes Back, which was pretty good, and ended up […]
Savage Minds is an elegantly-designed new blog run by six anthropologists. Its roster includes Alex Golub, whose site I used to read more often in the days before blogs, and who once wrote a post containing the following story:
Met with my advisor the other day to go over a conference paper I gave him that […]
Tyler Cowen is excitedly looking forward to Revenge of the Sith, and is encouraged by positive review in Variety:
The Force returns with most of its original power regained in “Star Wars: Episode III —Revenge of the Sith.” Concluding entry in George Lucas second three-pack of space epics teems with action, drama and spectacle, and even […]
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