Ok, this procrastination has to stop. A few more links:
- Who’s the master? – Simon at Kikuchiyo talks about his PhD cumulative exams. Two years from now, if I survive, I’ll have to undergo a similar process.
- Timothy Burke has an strongly worded posting on the torture issue and the dangers of abstraction. Together with John Quiggin in this posting at Crooked Timber (as always with Crooked Timber, read the lively exchange of comments attached to the posting), I think we are starting to see the blogosphere get interested in the broader debate over torture in intelligence gathering that I think we all need to think about.
- At the Movies, at Least, Good Vanquishes Evil
- Joel at Far Outliers has an interesting posting about an article in Korean Studies on the Aso Coal Strike. Far Outlers is a great blog in that there is a lot of mention of good academic articles or tidbits on the web on a range of interesting issues. The blog is a good example of how this medium is supposed to work not only for commentary or web links, but to share good sources of interesting information that may exist offline as well.
- Antti Leppänen has an interesting posting on Paeksu, a Korean term for those not engaged in productive work or study.
Thanks for the favorable mention. I feel I’m just as much a transcriber as a linker or a thinker (although I’ve started using my scanner and OCR for longer transcriptions).