Off the Mark

Drinking with the Troops
From a local blog, Urbanagora, comes “Drinks with a Soldier.” I just love how some jackass commentor tries to hide behind the shield of anonymity and call the post author a liar. Certainly there are all sorts of views on this war, including those of the troops fighting it.
Perhaps if you ever [...]

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Sunday, 28 Oct
Davis, Hayley, and Talbot J. Taylor, eds. Redefining Linguistics. London: Routledge, 1990.

Ch. 4: Talbot J. Taylor. Normativity and Linguistic Form. (Sat-Sun)
Ch.5: Paul Hopper. The Emergence of the Category ‘Proper Name’ in Discourse. (Sun)

The Taylor chapter was particularly excellent.
Zwicky, Arnold M. and Ann D. Zwicky. “Register as a Dimension of Linguistic Variation.” In [...]

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Saturday - Sunday, 23-24 June
Corry, Richard. “Causal Realism and the Laws of Nature.” Philosophy of Science 73 (3), July 2006: 261-276.
Sunday, 24 June
Smiraglia, Richard P. and Gregory H. Leazer. “Derivative Bibliographic Relationships: The Work Relationship in Global Bibliographic Database.” JASIS 50 (6), 1999: 493-504.
Cited by Tillett, B. B. “Bibliographical Relationships.” In Bean & [...]

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I am assuming that most of you are aware of the current flap over the posting, printing, displaying, and reproduction of the 16-byte hexadecimal number that is one of the cryptographic keys that—with some more knowledge; the number is not in itself magical—can unlock the encryption of HD and Blu-Ray DVDs and, thus, allow for [...]

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This evening I finished watching a movie I started last night, Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001). Pretty interesting history of exploitation films and larger changes in American society. But on the DVD I rented—in the extras—is something even better:
The Atom and Eve.
By the Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company, 1966.
Oh. My. [...]

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I am trying to be busier and productive now that I’m a little rested from last week. I am trying to prioritize, and trying not to feel guilty about “owing” various folks here something or other.
I’ve been busy and want to mention some of these things here in more detail:
The Wailin’ Jennys on Wed.
Siva [...]

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decreeOriginally uploaded by broken thoughts.
I had a really good trip to the Ani concert in Chicago. The show was excellent and I’ll have more to say, but I wanted to get this sad metaphor posted. It so excellently fits one of Ani’s newest songs that she played.
cuz daddy knows best
yes, this is the [...]

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News from the BBC yesterday:
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali gets 30 years for conspiracy. 
"Prosecutors had sought a life sentence, but Judge Lee
said that Abu Ali’s actions "did not result in one single actual
victim" and no weapons were found in his possession."
Disgraced former US lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been jailed for nearly six years for conspiracy [...]

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The decision to post this came about due to a comment from Angel on my post from yesterday, "One more destroyed life. How many more?"
The following originated as an email to a friend of mine, Gina the anthropologist, after an incident at a discussion forum we attended after Bowling for Columbine.  It was linked to [...]

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I have written about this topic before [among other places], and I have no doubt that I will have to again.  Such a complete shame. 
Please take the small amount of time out of your busy day to read "KIA in Alabama."  In my not-so-humble opinion you owe it to Doug Barber and the tens [...]

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