linkspam took a long walk
Zunguzungu (I really gotta learn this guy's name) offers up a pretty sound critique of the idea that choice of major is inherently tied to financial well-being. He points out: the statistical variance within individual majors is actually so huge that the predictive power of the data is negligible, contrary to the grand claims which are made for it by the researchers (and which are then dutifully repeated by the Washington Post). If you are an English major, this chart tells me that I have a fifty percent chance of being right when I guess that your future earnings will be between $37k and $71k. I also have fifty percent chance of being wrong in guessing that it is in that range, since precisely as many people are outside that range as are inside it.
To which I say: yay for someone remembering something from their social science statistics class!
I'm pretty sure I don't want to read this article about sex-trafficking in the US. But I probably will.
The writer who quit the jury of the Man Booker International Prize because it was awarded to Philip Roth (I must say I sympathize with her) talks about the prize, and her decision, in the Guardian.
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Baby Sifaka Lemur! Awww.
Even more cute, if possible: tiger cub in a kiddie pool!
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You know, when it's NPR (mainstream media!) saying So really, superhero comics are now folk tales, allegations of ownership notwithstanding. They're owned by someone legally, but they're not really owned by anyone culturally.--when it's NPR saying that (okay, fine, in a blog post about reading Sandman), I do feel like there's a change coming in ways we think about ownership of creativity in this culture.
Speaking of NPR blogs, I actually really like this meditation on five things Linda Holmes learned from Oprah Winfrey. Not all of which are entirely complimentary to Winfrey...
I found this post by Cecilia Tan about piracy and publicity quite interesting, and reassuring in many ways.
Speaking of piracy and intellectual property, Jenn has strong words for vendors who make it harder to buy something legally than it is to torrent it. She's got a point there...
Slate takes on the m-dash, over-uses it, and finds it overused.
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If I had the money, I would totally go to NYC for a weekend, just to see Derek Jacobi play Lear. As I do not, I shall instead share this article about various Lears of the last few decades. I'm reminded strongly of Geoffrey Tennant insisting that "it's just a play that' very difficult to stage effectively!" (Even though he wasn't talking about Lear...)
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In other news, I forgot my cellphone this morning. Which means I couldn't read my email or get text messages or phone calls at work (since no personal friends have my work phone number, why should they? I have a cell!). And I felt strangely cut off, even though I'm really not.
And what's somewhat entertaining is that I got home to only a few email messages (none of them time-sensitive), and no phone calls or texts at all. Heh.
I would love to sit at home and spend tomorrow editing. But that is not to be. Bah.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
To which I say: yay for someone remembering something from their social science statistics class!
I'm pretty sure I don't want to read this article about sex-trafficking in the US. But I probably will.
The writer who quit the jury of the Man Booker International Prize because it was awarded to Philip Roth (I must say I sympathize with her) talks about the prize, and her decision, in the Guardian.
*
Baby Sifaka Lemur! Awww.
Even more cute, if possible: tiger cub in a kiddie pool!
*
You know, when it's NPR (mainstream media!) saying So really, superhero comics are now folk tales, allegations of ownership notwithstanding. They're owned by someone legally, but they're not really owned by anyone culturally.--when it's NPR saying that (okay, fine, in a blog post about reading Sandman), I do feel like there's a change coming in ways we think about ownership of creativity in this culture.
Speaking of NPR blogs, I actually really like this meditation on five things Linda Holmes learned from Oprah Winfrey. Not all of which are entirely complimentary to Winfrey...
I found this post by Cecilia Tan about piracy and publicity quite interesting, and reassuring in many ways.
Speaking of piracy and intellectual property, Jenn has strong words for vendors who make it harder to buy something legally than it is to torrent it. She's got a point there...
Slate takes on the m-dash, over-uses it, and finds it overused.
*
If I had the money, I would totally go to NYC for a weekend, just to see Derek Jacobi play Lear. As I do not, I shall instead share this article about various Lears of the last few decades. I'm reminded strongly of Geoffrey Tennant insisting that "it's just a play that' very difficult to stage effectively!" (Even though he wasn't talking about Lear...)
*
In other news, I forgot my cellphone this morning. Which means I couldn't read my email or get text messages or phone calls at work (since no personal friends have my work phone number, why should they? I have a cell!). And I felt strangely cut off, even though I'm really not.
And what's somewhat entertaining is that I got home to only a few email messages (none of them time-sensitive), and no phone calls or texts at all. Heh.
I would love to sit at home and spend tomorrow editing. But that is not to be. Bah.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.