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Brutal irony
Saturday was Buddha Pūrṇimā, the international holiday that celebrates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and passing. The UN Secretary General issued a message calling for … more →
Yeti in a box
Seditious, or shrug-worthy?
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Court Merrigan wrote 2 months ago: This sign was right off the highway on my daily commute: The reference is of course to Thomas Jeffer … more →
Snark is not enough: Green Apple Books takes on the Kindle
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Court Merrigan wrote 3 months ago: Planning an overnight layover in San Francisco a few years back, I asked a friend from the Bay Area … more →
Harvard Press goes online; what's next?
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Court Merrigan wrote 4 months ago: Look at this – Harvard University Press is going to publish 1,000 digitized books on Scribd. … more →
Twittification update: twitter666
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Court Merrigan wrote 4 months ago: Following my post on the twittification of America, the estimable Brad Green kindly directed me to a … more →
Of National Malls and mule tracks
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Court Merrigan wrote 6 months ago: A couple weeks ago I spent about 6 hours in our nation’s capital, taking in the sights. Let m … more →
The Football-Industrial Complex, or, Higher Education
Court Merrigan wrote 6 months ago: Casting about for jobs I happened to visit the University of Wyoming HR page. Really, do you need t … more →
Brutal irony
yeti in a box wrote 6 months ago: Saturday was Buddha Pūrṇimā, the international holiday that celebrates the Budd … more →
Buddhist exclusivism in Sri Lanka
yeti in a box wrote 10 months ago: Is this modernism, exclusivism or fundamentalism? I’ve got a chapter coming out (in Sharing t … more →
My office smells
yeti in a box wrote 11 months ago: I walked in the door of my office this morning, having trod across the Old Aberdeen landscape. Rotti … more →
Open source at the blunt edge.
yeti in a box wrote 11 months ago: Here is an object lesson in why free and open source software is a symbol of good ethics. The other … more →
Stan Freberg to the (sardonic) rescue
yeti in a box wrote 11 months ago: In my youngest daughter’s school they celebrated the visit of Green Santa, who was into Repai … more →
Bad publicity, confused gender.
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yeti in a box wrote 1 year ago: Well, it had to happen. Here’s the blurb for a film in which a Yeti is the horror interest. Pr … more →
The Wrong Logo
yeti in a box wrote 1 year ago: I was in a supermarket yesterday, on my way back from other errands, buying a few staples. In my han … more →
Literatini
yeti in a box wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been working on the anthropology of literacy, especially in Himalayan Buddhism, since 19 … more →
Subversion, Conversion and so forth:
yeti in a box wrote 1 year ago: I’m on the train home after an intense conference on using anthropological and design tools t … more →
Cameroons bushmeat in the news
yeti in a box wrote 1 year ago: Bushmeat in Africa is a hot topic right now, less so in South and Southeast Asia. No one so far has … more →
What, so what, what for?
yeti in a box wrote 1 year ago: I discover with delight that my stated purpose here has aroused comment – over at Jinajik I … more →
Sitting back to back.
yeti in a box wrote 1 year ago: I work in a corporation, cunningly disguised as a university, that shifted from an open-source serve … more →
