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Monthly Archives: May 2006

Dream finals

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Dream championship finals, it was dubbed. Two best teams, which play good attacking and entertaining soccer, were playing. The two best players in the world faced each other. Champions League Soccer, as I asserted before, is the best sporting competition in the world.
But the game didn’t have any memorable moments, like that spectacular Zidane [...]

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Submitting a dissertation

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

If you thought writing and defending a dissertation was hard, there are more difficult rituals associated with this process. First, to get your dissertation committee to read your dissertation. Approval is easy, since you could argue, reason with your committee but getting it read isn’t. You have no agency in this matter. But in the [...]

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Privacy and survaillance

Monday, May 15, 2006

In one of the early episodes of the West Wing, President Bartlett has to choose a Supreme Court nominee. The safe choice (White, Anglo-Saxon, Centrist) is all for limiting privacy rights whereas the risky choice (Latino, EX-cop, edgy, very liberal) comes through the test both Toby and Sam have set for him. Sam makes an [...]

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Humanities today

Monday, May 15, 2006

A few weeks ago, I noted here about the the ‘Fate of Disciplines‘, organized by the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Spring quarter at the University of Chicago is usually the time for conferences and this was perhaps the biggest and most important event (at least for those of us in Humanities) of the year. [...]

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Tutor inc.

Monday, May 15, 2006

OK, we do it all. Transcribe medical audio files, process legal, tax papers, offer tech support and in general, do all that Mexicans won’t do here in your backyard and all that can be done eight thousand miles away.
We also help American kids do their homework and prepare for their exams. Now, officially tutors too [...]

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Kannada blogs and podcasts

Monday, May 15, 2006

Of course, Sanjevani has been podcasting for a while. That’s no surprise, given its history as perhaps the most responsive and innovative of all the Indian newspapers (yes, both English and Indian languages included) to technology. News coverage, though, is another matter.
But tonight, while visiting Sampada after some time, I was pleasantly surprised to see [...]

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