Monthly Archives: January 2007

You’re it!!!

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 31, 2007

Tagging is ever more commonplace, and the more tags are used the more useful they become. The Pew Internet & American Life Project looks at tagging in a memo by Lee Rainie dated 1/31/2007. As part of Rainie’s analysis he offers a brief interview with the boss tagger himself, David (“Everything is Miscellaneous”) Weinberger. Here’s [...]

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Daylight Savings Crap

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 30, 2007

Say you supported an infrastructure comprising five or ten thousand Windows desktops and several hundred servers. Would this daylight savings time opportunity affect your life next month?

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Just when I needed her most…

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 30, 2007

Dorothea Salo will return to Madison in March! Welcome back Dorothea! It may seem a small thing, but I am doing my best to gain remote access to e-journals (specifically JSTOR). For some awful reason related to profit motive, a patron of the UW Memorial Library must be onsite at the library to access JSTOR. [...]

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Smiting Palestinians

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 29, 2007

The stench of hatred wafted out of North Carolina last week. I caught my first whiff at the meetinghouse last night and really didn’t know what to say. I blame it on football. Football is a sissy sport. Young men bind themselves and daub evil smelling chemicals on tight muscles, and wear bizarre fetish action [...]

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Seventy-two Virgins

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 28, 2007

by Steve Martin

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Milwaukee Sushi

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 27, 2007

Go first to the supermarket and buy the following ingredients: Coarse ground prepared horseradish (preferably Silver Spring). Braunschweiger, aka liverwurst or liver sausage. A loaf of Catherine Clark’s wheat bread. Hellman’s mayonnaise. A fresh cucumber. The cucumber you should peel. Then slice it. Spread a thin coat of mayo on one slice of bread, then [...]

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Cornell Theory Center?

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 26, 2007

Theory? I don’t think so. How can it be about “theory” if it has so much science in it? Where are the busts of Saussure, Lacan, Barthes, Levi-Strauss? Where are the enshrined relics, the thigh bones, the gold inlaid molar of St. Jacques? St. Michel. I am so embarrassed for Cornell, associating “theory” with such [...]

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Close call…

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 25, 2007

Ken Camp tells a harrowing story of a medical emergency and says, I urge you, every one of you who ever reads this, to get in a class. Learn CPR. Learn how to give mouth-to-mouth. Learn the basics. In the most frightening and desperate of times, you may need them. Take care of yourselves, your [...]

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