Kieran Healy

The Constant Flux of Feeling

Via Alan, some dynamic visualization of emotions as expressed in online posts from a variety of sources. Some background:

Once a sentence containing “I feel” or “I am feeling” is found, the system looks backward to the beginning of the sentence, and forward to the end of the sentence, and then saves the full sentence in […]

Paging all Mac Nerds

This thing just arrived from the future.What can I say? if this is the RDF, sign me up.

Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin from the outside. It ain’t pretty.

Freaky

I was browsing in the campus bookshop over lunch and saw the UK/Australia edition of Freakonomics for sale—this is the recently released revised and expanded version. Looking to see what had changed, I was surprised and gratified to see that the new version incorporates much of Steven Levitt’s response to our seminar on the first […]

Getting the Counterfactual Right

In the course of a silly piece boosting Joe Lieberman against the loud but ineffectual online hordes, Bruce Kluger says:

If this wasn’t enough to drain the effervescence from the blogger bubbly, America’s noisy Web wags were dealt an even more sobering blow 10 days later when Snakes on a Plane opened nationwide to a decidedly […]

The Times Gets a Revamp

The New York Times’ website just got a new design, and at first glance passes the test of being better-designed than my homepage. (It had been failing this test for the past five years or so.) As I write this, the new look is set off by a photograph of Bill Frist apparently demonstrating the […]