well its that time of year, veterans day in the u.s. there are many veterans in this world, probably more than you think and they all served their government usually in the armed forces, but occasionally in other areas as determined by law. there are approximately 48million veterans in the u.s. elsewhere people celebrate this […]

If we didn't have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of NASA to make one. –H. Ross Perot. Paperplane.org : Ken Blackburn holds the World Record for time aloft for a paper airplane. Visit his site to read how he did it, the history of paper airplanes, […]

Solidarity and Hierarchy in Academic Job Markets. Via Brayden King, I’ve come across a nice paper by Shin-Kap Han in the current issue of Social Networks, which my colleague Ron Breiger co-edits. The paper is a network analysis of the exchange of job candidates in a number of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. […]

Soros declares war on Bush Multi-billionaire George Soros just upped the ante, giving 5 million to MoveOn.org, furthering his campaign to insure Bush is not reeelected. George Soros, one of the world's richest men, has given away nearly $5 billion to promote democracy in the former Soviet bloc, Africa and Asia. Now he has a […]

“What Is a Game” Conference. I've given myself an hour to writeup my impressions from the LevelUp conference, which will be a challenge because it was a busy 3 days. I'll give some highlights, anyway. (Here's a WSJ article previewing the event.) It was an… [grandtextauto.org] —— sounds like it was interesting and fun, hopefully […]

UK Universities (plc). The depressing state of debate over the British university system is well explored by Stefan Collini in the LRB . He ponders this sentence from the White Paper on Higher Education: We see a higher education sector which meets the needs of the economy in terms of trained people, research and technology […]

what i want to know is who is hitting my blog by searching for 'jeremy hunsinger blog' on yahoo and google. i dunno why anyone would actually look for my blog, and most places that mention it probably link to it, so i find searching for it somewhat puzzling.

For Your (RIAA-Approved) Listening Pleasure. Rory, having recently rediscovered the instruction manual from a 1970s-era cassette player, has used the surreal illustrations contained therein to create The Recording Industry Guide to Home Taping. Is it any coincidence that this ghost-written voice of the RIAA reminds me so much of the similarly channeled voice of Homeland… […]

Updated Create Change. In October, ACRL, ARL, SPARC, and SPARC Europe updated the Create Change web site and brochure, both already among the most effective tools for educating faculty and librarians about the serials crisis and the best options for overcoming it. The brochure text is free online for institutions that want to customize it […]

The Staging of the Jessica Lynch Rescue. This is a very interesting comment left today on one of our earlier Jessica Lynch posts: I came upon this… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] ——- more people should read baudrillard's political economy of the sign.