Entries from February 2007 ↓

Are you sick of haiku?  Was a measly $10 iTunes gift certificate not worth your time?  Well, if you’re Muslim, you’re now invited to submit a sermon to the first ever Malcolm X sermon competition, hosted by Muslims for Progressive Values.  First place gets you $1,000.
As many of you know, my research is on Islamic [...]

Results are in for round one of the haiku contest.  370 votes were cast and we had very close finishes across all fields–no category was decided by more than two votes!
Here are your four outstanding finalists competing for the super fantastic grand prize.  In alphabetical order by opening word:
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Counterarguments:
Let them sleep, like dogs? Oh, no:
Refute [...]

So far 312 votes have been cast in the academic haiku contest — thanks to all who have participated!  All the categories have very close races and it’s still a toss-up as to which poems will make it to the final round.  Those of you who haven’t voted yet still have a chance to change [...]

Here are all the tech/computer/internet entries from the academic haiku contest.  Please vote for your favorite by Monday night (Feb. 26). UPDATE: Voting is now in progress to choose the overall winner! Vote by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 28.
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Data hides in JPEG.
Eve can’t know; the oppressed speak,
Not just al Qaeda
“Odd-even histogram-preserving JPEG steganography”
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marsupial bot
kangaroolike behavior
now [...]

Here are all the social science entries from the academic haiku contest.  Please vote for your favorite by Monday night (Feb. 26). UPDATE: Voting is now in progress to choose the overall winner! Vote by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 28.
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dixie chicks blacklist
krugman blames clear channel (jerks)
nope, it was rednecks
“Elites, Masses, and Media Blacklists: The Dixie [...]

Here are all the humanities entries from the academic haiku contest.  Please vote for your favorite by Monday night (Feb. 26). UPDATE: Voting is now in progress to choose the overall winner! Vote by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 28.
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Words like “so, you know”
glue onto pronouns; grammar
from faded meaning.
“The grammaticalisation of discourse markers in relative clauses”
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The [...]

Here are all the phsyical science entries from the academic haiku contest.  Please vote for your favorite by Monday night (Feb. 26). UPDATE: Voting is now in progress to choose the overall winner! Vote by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 28.
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C60 islands.
molecules do not like salt;
strange shapes resulting.
“Buckminsterfullerene on KBr studied by High Resolution NC-AFM: Molecular [...]