Carlos Mondragon has a blog
“He cannot hide from me.”:http://salul.wordpress.com/ For everyone who was wondering about the ancient and enduring ties between Mexico and Vanuatu, look no further.
“He cannot hide from me.”:http://salul.wordpress.com/ For everyone who was wondering about the ancient and enduring ties between Mexico and Vanuatu, look no further.
I recently finished teaching Intro to Anthro, and for one of the last sessions I taught Kiri Miller’s conference paper on “Guitar Hero’s Rock Pedagogy”:http://guitarheroresearch.blogspot.com/2008/05/guitar-heros-rock-pedagogy-iaspm-us.html which is a great piece on an even more fascinating topic — Guitar Hero. As I was preparing for class I thought about how restricted our conversation about Guitar Hero [...]
I knew about the “ASOPA website”;http://www.asopa.com.au/ for some time, but didn’t know there was a “blog”:http://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/ as well. Awesome.
I’m fascinated by theorycrafting websites and was just turned on to “maxdps.com”:http://maxdps.com/ — amazing geekery.
Sssshhh…. don’t tell Barrick, but “one of their employees is blogging”:http://davidwillms.blogspot.com/ about life in Porgera. This is great for me, since the group that I had least access to during my research in Porgera was expatriate miners. It makes for interesting reading about what a white miner thinks about the “crazies” that live “on the [...]
More on the activist front — there is now a “protestbarrick.net”:http://www.protestbarrick.net/ website with information about Barrick and campaigns against it.
I am trying to blog more and more regularly. Can you tell? This entry is about how beautiful the “new OI website”:http://oi.uchicago.edu/ is. Always nice to see a Hittite dictionary project get the website it deserves.
Out of the blue the other day Savage minds got “a comment from Howard (Eilberg-)Schwartz”:http://savageminds.org/2006/04/28/savage-jews/#comment-53589. I think of him as the Rabbi Who Reads Levi-Strauss, but apparently since then he has become a business executive and now lectures on the intersection of spirituality and corporate social responsibility. He has a “new website”:http://www.freedomandcapitalism.com/ with information about [...]
Those of us who grew up in the tail-end of the Cold War know Greg Costikyan as the Leonardo da Vinci of serious gamer geekdom. He didn’t just _write_ games, he wrote _great_ games like Paranoia. And the games he wrote were smart, funny, and insightful. Since then he’s gone on to produce popular fiction [...]
When fellow college radio DJs Seth Sanders, J Niimi, and I get together in the same room and start talking about music, the air becomes thick with ozone and strange and powerful thoughts start oozing out of our ears and intertwining with one another like a scene out of Dark City. unforunately we have been [...]
Why? Because the Encyclopedia Brittanica has never even _heard_ of “Spam musubi”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi.
“Steve”:http://www.onepotmeal.com/ has “won the 60 second story competition”:http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/2005/06/14/and-the-winner-is/. Gratz to him. Do you know why he won? Because _Steve writes really well_. He deserved to win, that’s why. Yeah Steve!
Today on Amazon.com trying to track down the citation for “In The Name of Hawai’ians”:http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/halualani_in.html I discovered that “Noenoe Silva”:http://www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/Faculty/silva/nsilva.htm has an “amazon profile”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/clm/ref=cm_aya_ac_addfriend/002-3949094-5952040?form-customer-links=A3V8M4YZ7J4U86&cl.A3V8M4YZ7J4U86=favorite-member&result-template=tg/cm/member-glance/-/A3V8M4YZ7J4U86. It’s somewhat brief (although there is a very decent list on “Hawai’i by Hawai’ians: Beyond Tourist Propoganda”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/PKDX9GDGTVXW/ref=cm_aya_lm_title.more/002-3949094-5952040). What struck me about it was her nickname — Noe1893. I am all for [...]
I am pleased to announce the launch of a new website entitled “Savage Minds”:http://savageminds.org/. It’s an anthropology group blog which I am a contributor to. I’m excited because the site looks great thanks to Kerim’s hard work (and yes, those _are_ pensée sauvage on the masthead) and the entries — which now number up to [...]
I don’t know what strange synergy sparked this, but in fact yes, I have been obsessively reading both “Ant and Idea”:http://ideant.typepad.com/ideant/ant_idea/index.html _and_ “Edison Hate Future”:http://www.warrenellis.com/index.php?cat=31.
Every years or so I trawl the blogosphere for PNG-related websites. Unfortunately, they tend to be either ephemeral or not that helpful or forums and (for some reason) me hates to use forums. However, my blog recently got pinged by the mind behind “PNG life”:http://pnglife.blogspot.com/ and hence blogrolled over to “Sepik Mom”:http://www.sepikmom.com/ and “Bomana Nights”:http://bomana.blogspot.com/. [...]
Two cool things. First: fellow UofC alumn “Marc ‘Fertilizer Has Brought Poison’ Auslander has a blog”:http://www.bjournals.com/users/mausland/ over at Brandeis, where he teaches. Second: “everybody at Brandeis has (or could have) a blog”:http://www.bjournals.com/ thanks to the ginormous LiveJournal install that the computer users group has got over there. That is awesome. I wonder if the amount [...]
Err…. I know that sounds like a bad pr0n site, but in fact there are two very cool OpenDirs of pictures from PNG that some random person (too long to explain who) has left open to the public. One is apparently from a trip he and his girlfriend made to “the Tolukuma Gold Mine”:http://dj.dynamo.online.fr/tolukuma/ while [...]
The “new Serenity trailer”:http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/ is up. And yes, it is shiny.
The blog’s title: “The Problem of Social Reality”:http://peteralevin.com/blog/. The tagline: “Schutz, I did it again”. That _slays_ me. Uh… actually, _is_ that funny, or is all this work on my dissertation (due on _Monday_) starting to drive me batty? I think I may be loosing my _own_ grip on social reality. You be the judge. [...]
There are two cool sites I found this weekend. “The Accomplice”:http://www.theaccomplice.org/main.php is a hip semi-alterno literary group website co-founded by an anthropologist. It is good, although obviously I remain more fond of the the hip semi-alterno literary group website that “I helped co-found”:http://gapersblock.com/ Also, at the intersection of “Anne Galloway”:http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/, “Graham Leushcke”:http://www.leuschke.org/Main/Log and “Megulon 5″:http://www.dclxvi.org/megulon5/ [...]
via “Mack Daddy I”:http://bookninja.blogspot.com/
In an earlier version of my Anthropology of Virtual Worlds syllabus I incorrectly attributed the pieces “bow, nigger” and “possessing Barbie” to Jim Rossignol when they were in fact by always_black, who runs the the website (wait for it) alwaysblack.com. Sorry for the confusion, AB. It’s a good site and if you haven’t yet read [...]