October 2010
20 posts
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“By 1930 in the Soviet Union it was a different story. It was not that Marxist...”
– Trevor J. Barnes, “‘Not Only … But Also’: Quantitative and Critical Geography,” The Professional Geographer, 61.3 (2009), 295.
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Diver down!
For @bryner99 and @rmisra.
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Melting streetrat
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“The Dutch bought New York from the Indians in 1626 and by May 1941 there wasn’t...”
– Poisonous comedy from the lead intertitle to The Major and the Minor, 1942.
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I should’ve sent it to the Marx brothers!
For @nocoastoffense.
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And don’t listen to her
For @nocoastoffense
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Four on the floor
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Arrogant English
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Bhuvan and Deva go out to bat
For @nocoastoffense
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Hays Code goodness
Dorothy Malone closes up shop to wait out the rain with Bogie in The Big Sleep.
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“GIS indeed represents power to most audiences: it stands for funding and...”
– Marianna Pavlovskaya reiterates a persistent subtext of GISmania. I welcome more of this kind of reflexivity as GIS gets more and more popular in the (digital) humanities.
[1] Cosgrove and Daniels, 1988; Haraway, 1991; Rose, 1992; Sui, 2000
[2] Crampton, 2001
[3] Kwan, 2002a; Longley et al.,...
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“[O]ur tendency to hallucinate power laws is a disgrace.”
– Cosma Shalizi writes something that I like the rhythm of.
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“A networked, weak-tie world is good at things like helping Wall Streeters get...”
– Malcolm Gladwell manages to write an article that isn’t completely annoying or simplistic, though it’s a little of both. This dialectic of relations is kind of interesting for me as I try to understand better the character networks and systems in the novels I’m writing about, but...
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You know the drill.
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