Andrew Gelman very kindly sent me a link to his post of 25 April at the highly addictive Statistical modeling, causal inference and politic...

Andrew Gelman very kindly sent me a link to his post of 25 April at the highly addictive Statistical modeling, causal inference and politic...
The Endangered Languages Project at SOAS is holding Endangered Languages Week starting April 30, something to look into for those in the Lo...
I went to a 2-hour Artikelkurs at Hartnackschule toward the end of April. As it turned out, the course was not really about articles at all...
I got an e-mail from Rafe Donahue with a fabulous work-in-progress attached, a piece he has been writing on the importance of not letting su...
I wrote to my American publishers a few weeks ago asking for the reversion of rights to a book they bought in 2003. This was all messy and ...
I'm getting to the point where I'd rather castrate myself than talk to H. We work together at the tutoring center... Mithridates b...
I took the TestDaF (Deutsch als Fremdsprache) back in February and was told the results would be ready in 6 weeks. Heard nothing so wrote to...
Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood are starting up a new project, Stackoverflow.com , meant to be a resource for the arrogant programmers - the t...
Over on the Guardian, a commenter noticed that SOMEONE WAS WRONG ON THE INTERNET: 1) The reason Apple cannot stop anyone installing a retai...
The alien has been evacuated from a mainstream pop now largely given over to blokish conviviality and female hypersexuality. Pop now perform...
There are millions of people who would give anything to be in your shoes. How badly do you want this? Enough to step out of your comfort zon...
A rare opportunity has come up to sublet a room from one of Berlin's GRRRRRRRRREAT bloggers, TARARTRAT . TARARTRAT lives in Graefekiez, ...
Courtesy of JD , a link to Mark Brown's peculiar comments, in the Guardian , on a CD including a radio interview of Evelyn Waugh by a pa...
I was listening to the access accents CD for General American which I picked up in Oxford several months ago. The dialect coach's acco...
(Three readers of this blog may find this funny) Der Spiegel has a piece on a community in Texas descended from German immigrants in the 184...
The greatest consequence of The Wire (and its companion long-arc shows, many of them having seized the advantage of cable programming to ri...
I'm reading Dominique Urvoy's Les penseurs libres dans l'Islam classique (Albin Michel 1996/Flammarion 2003), which I picked up...
Immanent critique is, thus, in no way proposed as a way of understanding art, much less poetry, in particular. And it surely doesn't me...
'Pity the meat! Meat is undoubtedly the chief object of Bacon's pity, his only object of pity, is Anglo-Irish pity. . . . Meat is no...
I wanted to install Microcharts on my MacBook, which can run Windows XP, hence Office for Windows. I am using Parallels because it allows yo...
Over on the new improved Wordpress-hosted Language Log , Mark Liberman has a post on the danger of misunderstanding medical statistics, espe...
I went to a dinner last night at the Brasserie am Gendarmenmarkt held by the local Oxford and Columbia Societies. Met a physicist who had re...
In December 2006 I had a party to celebrate the completion of YNH. I invited lots of people, including a reader who had sent me an e-mail, ...
Boris Johnson's surprising early poll ead over Ken Livingstone in the run-up to the London mayoral election next month could be a headac...
One way the reader can tell Humbert Humbert is not Vladimir Nabokov: 'At one point he confuses a hummingbird and a hawksmoth[?], now I w...
In a Pythonesque podcast on man's battle with the Inland Revenue, Andy White and Darren Fell of Freelance Advisor analyse an interview w...
A couple of years ago I mentioned "teju cole, a temporary blog reporting on a visit home by a Nigerian long resident in the U.S.; it...