gr

I go to a café and the stalker turns up. (Of course, he's not really a stalker, just someone who knew my old address and used to turn u...

same again

Came across an interview on Poets & Writers of Chuck Adams, formerly of Simon & Schuster, now an editor at Algonquin Press. When I ...

dolce vita ist vorbei

Overheard at Café Kleisther last night. Unimprovable.

et in academia, äääääääähm, tu

Jenny Davidson has a link to this post on how best to tackle a dissertation as a route to an academic career. I'm tired. I'm a fem...

Anybody know about this?

Having sworn I would not get sidetracked by LaTeX again I naturally was unable to resist trying to install it on my new laptop. Went to Mac...

going bonkers

Apparently involved in some kind of dodgy deal. Which I can't talk about. Which makes jumping off a bridge look so good. I think I shoul...

tips

The latest issue of The Author, the quarterly magazine of the Society of Authors, was waiting at my PO Box. I read a number of dour pieces ...

SS Stats

If policy were set by state-by-state majorities of those 65 or older, none would allow same-sex marriage. If policy were set by those under ...

Three-toed good, Peebles bad

Thanks to a commenter, I've found Cosma Shalizi's review of Gillian Tett's Fool's Gold, which includes the following: In sho...

quis custodet ipsos custodes

Jenny Diski was invited to guest edit a student magazine, but failed lamentably to stay on-message. "It is not possible for us to print...

that clinking clanking sound

Donald McKenzie has a terrific review of Gillian Tett's new book, Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Globa...

a working girl's guide to game theory

Mithridates sent me an e-mail in which he mentioned Erving Goffman's book Interaction Ritual, which I haven't read. The Staatsbibli...

the wrong kind of data

Ben Goldacre's Bad Science , on the results of a 1995 WHO report on cocaine use. "Health problems from the use of legal substances,...

Mr P and gay marriage

Andrew Gelman has a terrific post, Gay Marriage: A Tipping Point? over on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference and Social Science on a st...

haus und maus

A neighbour in my old apartment building sent me an e-mail; there's a bad smell in the house from one of the coal ovens. One of my tena...

OH

There's a long interview of Owen Hatherley over on Ready Steady Book , in which OH talks about his new book Militant Modernism . I am a...

verbs

brief internet access in a café. check out bremer sprachblog. find Anatol Stefanowitch writing about the Voynitch ms, previously known to me...