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Your Slanguage Profile British Slang : 25% Canadian Slang : 25% Prison Slang : 25% Southern Slang : 25% Victorian Slang : 25% Aussie Slang :...

Areté has an inspiring post on taking a meeting with oneself --I think I'll follow her (and S.'s) example...

Michael Turton went to the fish market with his family and friends this morning and posted his pictures while we were at the fish market wi...

Konrad Lawson, on his blog Muninn, relates a chat he had with an elderly Taiwanese couple at a coffee shop in Taipei. They talked mostly in...

I found our apartment complex (or "community," as they often call it here) using Google's satellite images: here it is , in ca...

Am listening to an interview I did yesterday, using my MP3 player for the first time. It is SO clear! I'll never go back to bulky casset...

I found out Tuesday afternoon that Tunghai has accepted my proposal for a travel grant to present a paper at the conference of the Internati...

What do you do when your car won't start and it's the middle of the night? You call MacGyver, of course! Using only a paperclip and ...

I've been playing around with Technorati tags for my posts, but I have a feeling this is going to defy any tag besides "miscellany...

Came across a post by Alex Reid on " SUNYwide assessment and the failure of composition " that critiques the school's rubric f...

teeth-grinding frustration + a brief hiatus from blogdom.

Your IQ Is 120 Your Logical Intelligence is Above Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Exceptional Y...

There are a couple of interesting posts about mentoring over at the blog of the Synecdochic Prof (not to be confused with Schenectady Syne...

Issues in Scholarly Communication links to a study reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education that found that a third of respondents to...

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber cites an article by Jonathan Wolff about "the distorting effects" of the funding of humanities res...

At the Valve , Matt Greenfield muses about how research is evaluated in Britain and (in at least one school) in the U.S. [academic publishi...

Tunghai's computer center picked the dumbest of all possible times to make major changes to the school's web and e-mail service. So ...

Here . It's a good read.

There's a nice discussion going on at the Peking Duck on Singapore English, the bane of Lee Hsien Loong's existence, evidently (Sin...