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en-us2013-05-24T08:16:33-05:00NEW BLOG, in case you're reading via rss
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For various reasons I've MIGRATED OOOKBLOG to http://oook.info/blog/ on the WordPress platform. This hoary old 2004-looking version may or may not survive, but its entire content is now at the new location. Next challenge: making the WordPress implementation look pretty....oook2013-05-24T08:16:33-05:00Sarah Kendzior interview
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Back in the day when I was a graduate student (Stanford 1967-1972) the world was oh so different in so many ways. The discipline of Anthropology seemed alive, vital, relevant; there was money (NIMH, NIH, foundations) for study and for...oook2013-05-12T16:16:05-05:00some surly thoughts
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Eight years ago (as I was on the final approach to Retirement) I was wrestling with the discontinuity between my visions of Education in the liberal arts context and the gelid realities of liberal arts institutions. At that time I...oook2013-05-11T13:26:14-05:00Alla Turka
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I'm starting to accumulate and work with materials on Turkey in preparation for our September adventure, and this includes an effort to learn some Turkish, an exploration of basic facts of Turkish history, and reading of novels and other textual...oook2013-04-25T14:44:50-05:00Remembering a teacher, 50 years later
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In my freshman year at Harvard I studied Swedish (Scandinavian B --there was no Scandinavian A) under Göran Printz-Pċhlson, a pleasant if (as I thought) somewhat lumbering Swedish poet (I particularly remember that he wore leather jackets which creaked when...oook2013-04-11T19:42:52-05:00Thinking through
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What follows is just another in a long series of attempts to write my way out of a puzzlement, placed here so that I can find it again someday, so that I can point others to it, and so that...oook2013-02-17T13:19:12-05:00snow day serendipity
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A posting by Mark Liberman at LanguageLog about the Psychoacoustics Lab at Harvard nudged the memory cells and set off a train of associations. The PAL was located in the basement of Memorial Hall (arguably Harvard's ghastliest building, though there...oook2013-02-10T11:53:30-05:00Aaron Swartz
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I didn't know Aaron, but a whole lot of people whom I admire and follow did, and they have a lot to say. Just to put them in one place, for future referenceLarry Lessig Alex Stamos Quinn Norton Cory Doctorow...oook2013-01-13T12:15:07-05:003 cupolas
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In one block on Masonic Street in Rockland are three cupolated houses right next to each other: Sure looks like the same builder, and there must be a Tale somewhere......oook2013-01-11T20:50:28-05:00garages
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I'm rather pleased with this image:Outbuildings are usually functional-not-ornamented, and prone to desuetude. I'll pay closer attention to them as the Project continues....oook2013-01-11T08:20:27-05:00a Doc Searls fragment
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The whole thing is worth reading, especially if your vision is headed for the suboptimal, but this passage has particular clarity:All vision is in the brain, of course, and the world we see is largely a set of descriptions we...oook2013-01-11T08:02:06-05:00in the new year
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I'd like to think that I'll use this medium more, and more creatively. We'll see how that works itself out in the light of various realities. The vernacular architecture project is the main arrow in the quiver at the moment,...oook2013-01-06T11:49:16-05:00sez Dave Weinberger
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"...everything is interesting if observed at the right level of detail..." (in a posting about indexers, itself redolent of the unmissable)...oook2012-12-28T16:09:08-05:00here we are
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oook2012-12-27T06:45:11-05:00vernacular architecture of a sort
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David Malki captures an essence that I should have thought of myself (given that I'm thinking about how people construct the spaces they live in --and given that we now have a camera that can capture stuff in very low...oook2012-12-25T07:37:42-05:00