World’s Biggest Polluter and Plagiarizer
An under-reported news story from Summer 2008 has just come to my attention. Bush makes a joke about the USA as a polluting country at the G8 Summit? Never heard about it. Bush press materials which were insulting to Italy are excused as accidental because — it is admitted — they are the result of [...]
The Visions of Tom Friedman
My Fellow Americans, we can’t continue in this mode of ‘Dumb as we wanna be.’– Thomas L. Friedman I highly recommend Thomas Friedman’s latest editorial for the New York Times. Thanks go to my friend Kollin Min for pointing it out to me. In this piece, Friedman argues eloquently, citing America’s comparatively run-down airports and [...]
Good News about Google Books
In a recent NY Times Op-Ed, James Gleick reports some great news about Google Book Search. Great, that is, for scholars. If you are a scholar, you should already love Google Books for the huge number of public-domain books it has archived in full text. Printed texts were formerly resistant to the modern-world’s rapid research [...]