Posts from — February 2005

Inside Higher Ed :: Views:
Best end with some boilerplate. Any institution that accepts Derwood will definitely have gained another student.

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hehehe

Fear & Loathing in the Afterlife – Jackson Specific:
Rest in peace, brave and insane soldier. We will carry on your work. We will aspire to your greatness. You cut a swath through a jungle of inequity. We follow behind, cursing the gnats.

at the The Unemployeed Philosophers Guild:

classic

BBC – Science & Nature – Sex ID:

50 male, just your plain average male.

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Magazine / What Are Video Games Turning Us Into?:

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there is no need to worry….

Rox Populi : The Good Doctor is Out A Hunter S. Thompson Random Reader:

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one of the best obit’s so far.

Author Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide – Feb 21, 2005:

The writer himself, Hoag said, will be missed. “There’s no one in the world these days who writes the truth … as he seems to, to me,” he said. “He spoke to the world and said what people were afraid to say.

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one of my favorite authors, thinkers, arguers…. there are very few authors whose death ultimately changes the world, i think hst is one of those authors. his life and writing were highly symbolic, at once embodying the american values and exploding them in a hyperbolic surreality that leant them new meaning. this is a sad day for humankind, we’ve lost dr. gonzo.

http://www.ninagordon.com/audio/straightouttacompton.mp3

steam toy

cool

We are all lemmings, we bloggers:
I obey the ProfGrrrrl:

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

As you command.

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okee dokee

“preconception is the personal interest of the sociologist-research-analyst.”

in Glaser “Emerging vs Forcing” basics of grounded theory analysis