Entries from June 2007 ↓

Pinar and I are going to Barcelona tomorrow for 12 days.  This is the first time we’ve been there and we’re excited about the trip.  I know it’s last minute, but if you have any tips on places to see, food to try, or things to do, please let me know in the comments!
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An important part of surviving graduate school is soaking up advice from those who have gone before you.  Sure, your particular circumstances will be unique, but grad students face so much in common that it pays to heed your elders.
Fabio has been writing a series at orgtheory.net intended to demystify graduate school and help students [...]

Check out these shoes the 20-something guy in front of me on the bus was wearing.  If you can’t make it out, that’s a map of the Middle East with a soldier figure kneeling over Iraq.  There’s a Union Jack, an American flag with a skull instead of stars, and a Star of David on [...]

Update: For those of you coming to do research in Turkey, I’m sorry to report that the Atatürk Kitaplığı, containing one of Turkey’s best periodical archives, will be closed for renovations until October 10, 2007 sometime in 2008.  News of the closure was sent out on the H-Turk listserv and I just called the library [...]

If you haven’t registered your own name as a domain name, what are you waiting for?  Chances are someone else has the same name as you — check here for the U.S. — so do you really want Mr. or Ms. Same Name the neo-Nazi or adult film star claiming your domain?
I checked the availability [...]

Of all the hacks in Lifehacker’s 13 book hacks for the library crowd, I think BibMe is the most useful.  BibMe is a free online bibliography maker that generates complete bibliographic citations from very simple searches.  Your bibliography can then be saved or exported in MLA, Chicago, or APA style as a rich text file.
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I don’t know how I’d survive my three-hour commute without audiobooks, and now there’s a website that should help tide me over after I get through my current stash.  LibriVox offers free audiobooks galore, so chances are you’ll find something you’ve always been meaning to read.  All their recordings are of public domain books, so [...]