Happy Arrival Day & Links
In this issue: Happy Arrival Day!
Web site recommendations: IT/politics/misc
Today is the 350th anniversary of the first Jews’ arrival in New Amsterdam (today’s New York City). I quote from The Head Heeb: “Arrival Day is a holiday of the American Jewish people rather than the Jewish religion - a celebration of the Jewish community and its contributions to the United States. As such, non-Jews as well as Jews are welcome to join in the celebration. In the wise words of Ikram Saeed, everyone is Jewish today, just as everyone is Irish on St. Patricks Day.” See my little contribution here: http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002457.html
.. and many more interesting reflections on the day here: http://headheeb.blogmosis.com/archives/026073.html
And now onto a batch of interesting links.
IMPORTANT notes on some of the latest Internet fraud (VERY authentic looking email that pretends to be coming from your bank and sends you to a Web site)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/22/uk_banks_and_police_proffer/
Search engine relationship chart
http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshipchart.htm
Get excerpts from books and other material not online otherwise by searching on Google Print
http://print.google.com/print/faq.html
Enter this in the Google search form in addition to your query:
site:print.google.com
Example:
site:print.google.com internet
Yields:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=site%3Aprint.google.com+internet
with all sorts of excerpts of books about the Internet
ForwardTrack - program to track six-degrees-of-separation spread of messages
http://forwardtrack.eyebeamresearch.org/
Artstor now live (for institutions)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/14/arts/design/14ART.html?ex=1250222400&en=dc2a82f655103a85&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
Cell phone cameras posing new privacy problems
http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/Default.asp?ArID=79653&SecID=2
But this can’t possibly be a viable solution:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200409/msg00041.html
“God is not a Republican. Or a Democrat.” flash movie
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=action.election&item=petition_flash
A Hidden Swing Vote: Evangelicals
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/04/opinion/04greeley.html or try:
Bikes Against Bush - a very interesting art-tech project
http://www.bikesagainstbush.com
& how its creator was arrested during the Republican National Convention
http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/105740/index.php
One thousand reasons not to vote for Bush
http://www.thousandreasons.org/
Differences between American and British English
http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/jones/differences.htm
Clerical Error Puts Kennedy on “No Fly” List
http://www.whbf.com/Global/story.asp?S=2195545
America’s 25 Hot Schools - I realize these things are extremely subjective, but I have to link to it since not only is Northwesternlisted, but my School of Communication is specifically recognized:)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5626574/site/newsweek/
a great little piece to help us think critically about gendered language
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
interesting discussion about gender-neutral pronouns
http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002363.html
Vintage postcards
http://www.postcardman.net/
Today’s quote:
From the last chapter of Our Lives: Encounters of a Scientist by Istvan
Hargittai (Akadémiai Kiadó, 2004), p.224.:
“I have mentioned present-day anti-Semitism in the preceding chapters. Some of my friends cautioned me that by pointing out anti-Semitism, especially in Hungary, I lend it exposure. They told me that there has always been anti-Semitism and there will always be; it is commonplace and pointing it out is degrading. However, I prefer fighting abuse to ignoring it. I admire the American experience in which tremendous progress has been achieved in a generation or two not only in civil rights legislation but also in the general atmosphere of the society. I believe that anti-Semitism is a poison in society, which should be fought against by Jews and non-Jews alike and especially by the society as a whole for it diverts attention from real problems and their solution.”
(Write to me for information about buying a copy of this book. — E.)