Sunday!
Periodically, we find a kid’s book that makes us say “We need one of these for (specific kid)!” and then “and we’d probably need another one just in case”.
Monthly Archive: April 2015
Malpractice
Earlier tonight, a CNN correspondent suggested that people who were more interested in the riots in Baltimore than in the Correspondent’s Dinner go onto the internet to get news about them.
The Problem With Taste Tribes
In which people are shocked, shocked to find out that not everyone agrees with them.
Linky Friday #112: Campus Edition
This Week! Culture, International Art, History, Law, and Robotics!
Weekend!
One of those weeks where you run as fast as you can just to fall behind only a middle amount.
Finale!
This post will be full of spoilers up to and including the S3 finale of FX’s excellent Cold War spy thriller / family drama / wig-extravaganza, The Americans. Click at your own peril, Comrade.
Adventures in civic marketing
Not Clickhole: Saskatchewan town “rethinks its ‘Land of Rape and Honey’ slogan”.
Context Matters: Netflix’s Daredevil
If you think about Daredevil within the broader limits of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, your brain will explode like that one guy’s that Kingpin smashed in his vehicle’s door. So don’t do that.
Daredevil and Media Stuck-in-Amber Portrait of New York
It will always be 1981 in NYC according to the Media. Even if there are Iphones.
Research Complements Teaching
Research, in addition to teaching, deserves to be part of a good university’s mission.
Repairing your own car violates the copyright of others
There’s a suit arguing that car enthusiasts who repair and/or tune their own car may be in violation of the DMCA. This could also affect independent third-party repair shops who do stuff like repair...
The Montauk Catamaran Company Chronicles, 4/21/15: Listening to Your Spidey Sense, Part 2
Risk, rewarding and unrewarding, considered again: Passenger safety edition
Questioning the Bad-Apple View of Policing
There is considerable evidence that the issues with policing in the US are not constrained to a few bad apples.
The Connection Between the 1882 Troys and the 1883 New Yorks
Early Baseball History: I Take Requests.
