I just tried the Sperling’s BestPlaces survey and It would appear the top 10 places for me to live in the US are: San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Washington, DC, Tacoma (WA), Long Island (NY), Syracuse (NY), San Jose (CA), Minneapolis-St. Paul (MN-WI), and Denver (CO). I’m a bit confused about some of them, but the [...]
Just a pointer to some recent postings I made over at Frog In A Well: Links to Japanese Historical Maps First or Last Name – On referring to women by their first name and men by their surname in history Social Management – About Sheldon Garon’s discussion of social management and example of it in [...]
I recently enjoyed this analytic philosopher’s (I make this assumption given his over-simplistic reference to postmodern historians as “anti-representationalists” and his outdated analytic philosophy of history article) short review of Cantor’s Inventing the Middle Ages (Also reprinted here). Blogenspiel has already responded to it but was more than anything venting anger at Cantor. This means [...]
I played around a little with the Music Plasma website. Put in a favorite singer and get a spatial map of music “surrounding” that artist. It is fascinating to use, but more importantly, when combined with something like the iTunes music store for browsing the songs of various artists (30 second snippets of each song) [...]
There is a “culture divide” in the instant messaging world and I think that this post by Zaphoria is close to pinning it down. Being online for chat has a tendency to signal different things to different people. One specific tiny annoying thing I experience in this “presence vs. communication” aspect of the IM world [...]
I just upgraded to 1.5 of WordPress, which is the blogging software I use to run this site. Not sure when I will get the “theme” more personalized. As those of you visiting the site may notice, I’m currently using the default “theme” that came with the upgrade. I’m hoping this new version will handle [...]
I have been collecting some materials on occupied Denmark and Norway in various languages from the Harvard libraries. I was flipping through a great book I found today called Parti og Plakat NS 1933-1945 which is a collection of some 250 propaganda posters from Norway’s Nasjonal Samling party (the Norwegian national socialists). I told my [...]
There is an editorial in Hankyoreh about some former Seoul National University professor Kim Minsu who was apparently let go because he didn’t have enough research publications. He apparently won a lawsuit against the university. However, the editorial also says, “As a result of the court’s findings, Kim’s assertion that the real reason SNU did [...]