Pudding’s in the proof… or something like that

We tell our students not to let errors stand, if we can help it.  But sometimes, we just can’t help it, and we’ve got to live with that. We’ve all had the experience of getting article, review, or book proofs back with instructions: no changes except for typos, major errors, etc.  Last month I was […]

NLRB to rule on unions’ use of employee email accounts: ruling could cut both ways

Union organizers may be getting a new way to communicate with employees, at the cost of some of the confidentiality necessary for employees to feel safe in union activities. Unions need ways to communicate with employees.  According to a ruling last week from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), union organizers might be getting a […]

The Ryan budget: dumping access to art, humanities, and higher education in favor of plutocracy

There are several breathtaking elements here.  One is the level of double-speak, the use of euphemism to claim that Ryan intends the exact opposite of what the budget actually does.  He’s long been a budgetary charlatan in terms of the overall numbers, and this budget is no exception.  The other thing is what, in fact, […]

I have no idea what to make of this… but I like it

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, featuring Tom Morello (formerly of Rage Against the Machine), with a string section straight out of Robert Palmer video, covering… wait for it… yes, that Stayin Alive, by the BeeGees.  Is this the equivalent of Dylan going electric, or Ray Charles doing country, or Nixon going to China?  Up […]

Macroanalysis and the Culture Industry

Just a short followup to our in-class discussion of Matt Jockers’s Macroanalysis.  Not surprisingly, much of Jockers’s general message was preaching to the converted, given that we’re all here as volunteers interested in the digital humanities. Not surprisingly, much of what we had to say in terms of general appreciation, statistical methodology, presentation, and so forth […]