December 2007
18 posts
Tufts in the news again.
Uh oh: Former Tufts researcher files bias lawsuit vs. school.
Merry Christmas, baby Jesus
Dear eight pound, six ounce, newborn infant Jesus - don’t even know a word yet, just a little infant so cuddly but still omnipotent - peace on earth and the happiest of Christmases to anyone reading along. Be well.
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Bulletin: New indie rock girlfriend
Of course, it has been Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis since I was 16 and fell madly in love with Science vs. Romance, her short red locks and pouty bass playing. Kori Gardner and others have been affections or fleeting passions, but I haven’t had true blue new Indie Rock Girlfriend for years.
Spurred by nothing much more than her dazzling beauty, delicate songcraft, and the fact that I...
How often is often?
The Times had a front page headline yesterday, “Obama’s Vote in Illinois Was Often Just ‘Present.’”
Call me an Obama shill (I am), but I have an itch to scratch: the article states that then-State Senator Obama used the “Present” vote to register disapproval of measures he found unconstitutional or by party instruction “nearly 130 times.” A bit later,...
links for 2007-12-19
Stats, stats, baby! « Flickr Blog
Flickr launched a stats feature for Pro members with referrers, graphs, most viewed - amazing! This launched last week and I just noticed the button today (RSS overload to blame).
(tags: photography statistics flickr)
links for 2007-12-17
Understanding Sub-Pixel (LCD Screen) Anti-Aliased Font Rendering
The big momma Ant-Aliasing post: now I actually understand how it works.
(tags: graphic gui interface lcd macosx design tech)
Everyone Forever / Photography / Tree
Photography: pulling trees out of context, in context. I like this.
(tags: photo photography art)
Bagelturf - Aperture: 32 Ways To Speed Up Aperture
This guy...
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Nuditygate 2007: Innocent Students in the...
Every year a bunch of kids at Tufts get drunk and run around naked on the last day of classes; we call it NQR. This year, a reporter (obviously without any exciting Monday night plans) from a local paper1 got the bright idea to head up to campus with a video camera and a dream to shoot everyone running by, then to put together a hard-hitting piece on life at a prestigious school attended mostly by...
Literature Review resources online
Tufts is often put to shame when it comes to making these sorts of resources easily available: How am I supposed to write this Literature Review for my Thesis? What is a Lit Review? I’m sure there’s some sheet on the topic that was typed on an old IBM and has been photocopied every couple years for the last twenty, but I need it now. Sure, these other schools are bigger than us, but...
Do you wanna come inside my house?
Jenny Lewis sings about sex in the 1996 flick Foxfire, long renowned amongst Rilo Kiley fans and…well, probably just Rilo Kiley fans. It’s remarkable how her voice has remained, though she has grown up a whole lot. Maybe notable for also starring Angelina Jolie? And Peter Faccinelli?
An advice column from the grave
First, stop acting like a vitamin-deficient Adlai Stevenson.
To this political neophyte, Karl Rove seems to hit on exactly what Barack is doing wrong in these last weeks before an Iowa Caucus that Obama is potentially poised to take. Click through for mind-blowing sideline commentary from the former Deputy White House Chief of Staff at the FT. Mind-blowing in a sort of, “Really? Karl Rove?...
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links for 2007-12-05
Subpixel Anti-Aliasing Follow-Up (Quarter Life Crisis) Anti-aliasing in the Leopard Menu Bar is absolutely worthless, this is the first (though I’m sure far from the only) piece I’ve stumbled on bemoaning that fact. Yes, I know I’m late to the game. (tags: apple os x graphics)
Graphic Design and typography - Swiss Legacy Oh Lord, a whole blog dedicated to swiss design:...
links for 2007-12-04
Rainer Brockerhoff :: Quay
If you miss the pop-up menus when holding a click on the Applications folder in your Dock, this app will fulfill your wildest dreams.
(tags: apple osx tools hack freeware application app)
Integral communities, outside
Max Lerner, former editor of The Nation and a New York Post columnist (the old Post), writing in 1957 on the quiet and unfulfilled nature of Americans without a place:
A number of recent American writings indicate that the nostalgia for the small town need not be constructed as directed toward the town itself: it is rather a “quest for community” (as Robert Nisbet puts it)—a...
They're all made out of ticky tacky and they all...
Without a TV I miss some important cultural milestones; one which I stumbled upon with some amazement tonight is a nifty habit of Showtime’s Weeds.
Their theme song is a pithy bit of suburban satire from the 1960s by San Franciscan folk singer Malvina Reynolds called “Little Boxes,” and after the first season they started inviting a litany of mainstream and independent artists...
Schooled
Great Uncle Bill & Aunt Kay invited my Dad and I to sit down for a chat when we stopped by their house on some post-Thanksgiving errands. They asked about my thesis, and at their 87 years, I thought the most succinct explanation would be, “I’m looking at economically developing communities.”
I didn’t really want to get into structural inequities in planning and...