Kavoori and Archeneaux The Cell Phone Reader Goggin Cell Phone Culture Horst and Miller The Cell Phone notice a pattern? and I checked out Paul Edwards’ The Closed World for the millionth time. I should really buy that book. Music: Isis In the Absence of Truth and Isis/Aereogramme In the Fishtank
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Kitchenware and Ammo, Together as You’ve Always Wanted Them
Locals will wonder what took us so long and everyone reading at a distance will have to file this under “what the hell?” We finally made it to Quincaillerie Dante yesterday while on some errands about town. What an amazing store. Much better prices on kitchen gadgetry and cookware than the fancy-pants cooking stores and …
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Rock Patent
This showed up in my mailbox courtesy of Kembrew McLeod. You must must must click on the picture. It’s on an actual patent.
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That’s the number of unread blog posts in my little rss feed on Safari. Yes, I have been neglecting the internet for other things. I’m thinking I need to get rid of some rss feeds and just go back to reading my friends. But enough on that. So here we are in 2007 and I …
Quote of the Week + More New Book Arrivals
The point of universites for Justi and other cameralists is to make students useful as future tools–servants of the state and upright citizens. If universities had merely the goal to improve citizens’ understanding and widen human knowledge, then one would need no public funding for institutions of such little benefit to the state and common …
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Seasonal Flamewar Disorder
Most of the listservs I receive and most of the online fora I frequent are prodominantly populated by academics. Academics, as you know, have a fairly predictable year-end cycle of finish, grade grade grade, and finish again. This is repeated in April through June though different people’s schools finish at different times, while Christmas affects …
New Book Arrivals and More
New Books: Andrew Crisell Understanding Radio — has it constantly checked out of the library, decided to buy after a recall Creagher, Lunbeck and Schiebinger Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine — mostly history an anthropology, a good collection. Again, purchased after a recall Peter Szendy, Sur Écoute: Esthétique de L’Espionage just came in …