Entries from December 2006 ↓

I mentioned last week that I was participating in ProBlogger’s group writing project that called for predictions of 2007 and reviews of 2006.  (This was the second time I participated; my first entry was about selling books to make a little extra cash).
Here are five posts submitted to the project that I enjoyed and [...]

I’m signed up for the Pew Research Center’s email newsletter, which means I get a weekly batch of reports on opinion polls and demographic trends.  That might not sound like a lot of fun, but Pew does have a lighter side.  Today they linked to an online collection of holiday cards sent this year by [...]

One of the regular topics on this site is productivity, so in the spirit of Darren Rowse’s group writing project calling for year-end reviews, I thought it would be useful to do a roundup of tips and strategies that I actually put into practice during 2006.  I’ve tried to separate the wheat from the chaff [...]

Am I the last person to learn that you can get free podcasts of This American Life?  How cool is that?  And here I’d been trying to find an excuse to listen to the radio in my car from 2-3pm every Sunday.
This week’s broadcast is on relations between Muslims and non-Muslims [MP3], with a particularly [...]

The 8:45 AM EST slot on “Morning Edition” is the only radio I listen to regularly–it fits in the 3 minute window between dropping my wife off at work and parking across campus in the parking ramp–but it regularly has great features that I’ve written about before.
On Friday the segment was on Ahmet Ertegun, founder [...]

The Onion has some good Christmas articles worth checking out.  The one on Charlie Brown probably won’t make sense if you didn’t grow up in the U.S.  The Christmas in Iraq article is great and reminds me of a certain holiday tune sung by Mr. Garrison on South Park, which I’ll refrain from linking to [...]

My home state, Iowa, has shown up on my radar quite a bit lately.  Here are the most recent sightings:
Sociologist Jeremy Freese, who I read avidly to remind myself that you can make it through grad school with your sense of humor intact, has been proposing that Dar Williams’ song “Iowa” be made the official [...]