blackprof.com: A New Era of Plessy in California? What happens when you ban affirmative action: This fall, out of over 4,800 incoming freshman at UCLA, 96 are black.
links for 2006-06-03
WWE 2006 | 3rd Annual Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics Just found out about this.
links for 2006-06-02
Competitive Enterprise Institute: We Call it Hot Air Industry group releases attack ads criticizing Al Gore’s movie.
Probing the Nature of Blog Communities
I heard about Noor Ali-Hasan’s masters’ thesis from a friend in Ann Arbor a while back, and she has recently posted a condensed version of her thesis on the web. Titled “Analyzing the Social Patterns and Behaviors Associated with Blogrolls and Blog Comments,” Ali-Hasan sets out to determine if blogs “facilitate the formation of new […]
links for 2006-06-01
Sorg and Associates, P.C. An interesting architectural firm in D.C. I stumbled across. Journal of Public Transportation Journal with free full-text archives.
The History of 7th Street’s ‘Warehouse’
I had no idea this Shaw business had such an interesting history! Warehouse is a great spot in the neighborhood that hosts all kinds of arts events and runs a coffee shop/bar/cafe. One of the most active [arts spaces in DC] is the family-run cluster on 7th street Northwest, comprising the Warehouse Theater, Warehouse Nextdoor […]
Bidding for Border Protection
I noticed this story in today’s Post buried in the business section. It reports how bidding is underway between major defense contractors for a $2 billion contract to “launch a comprehensive program to transform its border control technology and infrastructure,” according to the project website. This line in the Post’s story today caught my eye: […]