Links
In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/science/fun
I was interviewed on CNNfn’s The Flip Side last week. You can see the clip here: http://www.eszter.com/cnnfn.html
(requires the free Quicktime plug-in)
I say a few words about the experience here:
http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001791.html
Do keep sending me links to interesting sites and articles!
Who creates content online http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=113 and in particular, what percentage of American Internet users read/write blogs:
http://tinyurl.com/2lnsb
Creative Commons Presents “Reticulum Rex” - informative
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/reticulum_rex/ [flash]
(please note: CC is looking for people to translate their Flash files to other languages)
New Web site of the Communication and Information Technology section of the American Sociological Association
http://www.citasa.org
T-Shirt Maker Claims He’s “Gagged by Google”
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3346461
NPR’s On The Media
http://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/
see in particular Creation of the Media on the bottom half of the page
In Class, the Audience Weighs In (use of clickers in the classroom)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/technology/circuits/29hand.html
U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the Sciences
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/03/science/03RESE.html?pagewanted=all
Foreign-Student Applications Decline in U.S.
http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=3tvtvv781wp1ilscfl55a76wm8wqwn0s
Making Women’s Issues Go Away - how information about pay equity issues and reproductive healthcare is disappearing from the Bush administration’s Women’s Bureau Web site
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/04/28/womens_report/
Picturing Women “exploring historical and contemporary representations and self-representations of women - how they are figured, fashioned, turned into portraits, and told about in words and pictorial narrative”
http://www.picturingwomen.org
A guide to seating on air planes
http://seatguru.com/
For geeks: code for displaying referral searches to your site
http://twiki.tensegrity.net/bin/view/Main/SearchReferralZeitgeist
Some options for a new EU flag 
[in German]
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/ausland/bildstrecke/21/30990/p0/
Great little audio file made completely from Windows sounds
http://pyandre.free.fr/windows_mix.swf
Funny chain letter for academia
http://www.devpsy.org/humor/academic_chain_letter.html
Grad student humor (amusing to read every couple of years..)
http://www.devpsy.org/humor/graduate_student.html
For Spanish-speakers in the audience (I’m afraid that’s not me):
The Latin-American journal Araucaria has a special issue with comments by physicists and social scientists on the legacy of Stanley Milgram http://www.us.es/araucaria/nro10.htm
including the first translation of Milgram’s original six degrees article into Spanish:
http://www.us.es/araucaria/ideas10_2.pdf
Today’s quote:
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” — John Kenneth Galbraith