I found this Malcolm Gladwell article in the New Yorker on a book about reasons quite interesting. Is your reason a story, a convention, or a code? This part reminded me of some of the talk about Michigamua: When we say that two parties in a conflict are “talking past each other,” this is what […]
A Few Thoughts on Place Names
I’ve been thinking a lot about place names recently. First there is the persistence of names. There was one case I stumbled across at work: while researching an old factory in San Francisco I discovered that although now the site is the location of two apartment towers, the new buildings retain the name of the […]
links for 2006-04-18
The Washington Oculus: A Magic Roundabout Mike wants one of these in DC.
links for 2006-04-17
17 Students Staging Sit-In Are Arrested for Trespassing A sit-in protest over university pay at the University of Virginia. Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth Technorati CEO issues one of his regular reports about the blogosphere. The data is similar to his February 2006 report, except the tally […]
A Note
According to friends, University of Michigan graduate Ellen Kolasky passed away late Friday due to a recently diagnosed illness. Ellen graduated from the university in 2005 and was heavily involved in the student organization Students for PIRGIM as well as the Residential College, where she was a student. Her family will be holding a memorial […]
Luxury Boxes at the Big House?
My father pointed me to this article in the New York Times from a couple weeks back (I found a free copy on a blog here, but with editorializing) about a controversy over a proposal to add luxury boxes to Michigan Stadium. The idea has been floated as a means to produce additional revenue for […]
links for 2006-04-16
Personal Democracy Forum, May 15 I have to make it to this conference.