Posted in deep thoughts on February 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
this website. i’m not sure i understand why it’s such a sensation. i’d love to see their stats at this point! yes, it’s definitely funny, but to me it’s a bit curious that it has come up on so many blogs i read either in posts or comments. also, i got [...]
Posted in sociology on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
I’d be using the hell out of the imagery Lisa posted on sociological images today. I think it’s really helpful to 1) be funny and 2) bring the material down to earth. The students who will one day be published in ASR or AJS will probably be able to extrapolate from a graph that shows [...]
Posted in fun on February 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I don’t know if you guys have seen this before, but it’s pretty hilarious. It is not for you if you don’t like bleeped out profanity, though. Anyway, M found the first one a while back:
And then the other day he found the follow-up which is pretty much, as they say, off the hook:
Posted in memes on February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was tagged by The Public and the Private! (Thanks!) The game is to open the nearest book to page 123 and reproduce the 6th through the 8th sentences.
The book is Postmodern Theory by Steven Best and Douglas Kellner.
Because he has said nothing of these important phenomena, Foucault’s analysis of society and power lacks [...]
Posted in the internet on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I can’t wait to read Jon’s article in The Austin Chronicle about Facebook! It looks to be as interesting as one might expect from a guy who has his fingers in just about everything here in Austin and beyond. Check out his blog Weblogsky if you’re interested in a non-academic but quite insightful perspective on [...]
Posted in sociology on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
People have started posting on SociJournals! If you haven’t figured it out yet, you can subscribe to the page that documents changes to the wiki in your RSS feed reader.
Posted in deep thoughts on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
We Americans are so isolated by our language. It’s always been a dream of mine to be bilingual (or multilingual!), and I’m working on it. Even still, I find myself accidentally being ethnocentric sometimes if I’m not careful. Like, for example, I noticed a bit of surprise in my mind when I read that several [...]
Posted in the internet on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The professor I work for does this hilarious thing at the beginning of the semester. He pulls up a chair for his students and demonstrates for them what they look like when they attempt to casually text message in class. Of course he exaggerates and makes them all laugh, but it seems to work pretty [...]
Posted in religion on February 25, 2008 | 15 Comments »
More Americans believe in a literal hell and the devil than Darwin’s theory of evolution, according to a new Harris poll released on Thursday.
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via Dave
Since I’m a sociology grad student, I’m wondering about validity and reliability of this poll. Who is this Harris, anyway? (I just got home from my methods class. Can you tell?)
Posted in political on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Austinist pointed out a video of Hillary coming off as really sarcastic and nasty in a speech this weekend. I don’t know about her, but I’ve heard Obama address this “all talk with nothing to back it up” complaint about 70 times already. Much like the Xerox comment during the debate, at this [...]
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