Not for the US
Check out these 10 adds that Add Age says won’t show up in the US.
Via Juan Non-Volokh.
Culture
Graffiti Archaeology
Some of this is fascinating…makes you wonder about the folks who wipe it out. Be sure to zoom in to get the full impact!
Graffiti Archaeology [Macromedia Flash Reader]
Envisioned and created by Cassidy Curtis (and a few photographer friends), this site is a “study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time” in San Francisco. While reviled by public officials and city sanitation workers, these walls seem to come alive with a flourish, as visitors can watch these locales change over time. Currently visitors can browse through five different locations in the city. The real star of the site is the graphical interface that allows visitors to zoom in and out through the different phases of each site’s respective artistic evolution. Along with this fun feature, visitors can look at each site during various transformations, giving one a sense of how each wall has been changed by a number of graffiti artists.
Via the Internet Scout Report
Librarians using the Internet
The American Library Association has released an updated version of Libraries and the Internet Toolkit:
The American Library Association (ALA) has produced this “toolkit” to assist librarians in managing the Internet and educating their public about how to use it effectively.
As Seth says: Worth skimming if you’re interested in the topic
Writing About Human Sexuality
OK, you can get a chuckle or two out of Will Wilkinson’s savaging of Jennifer Roback Morse’s flawed National Review article :
It’s unecessary to know a damn thing about biology or anthropology to discover that Roback Morse has NO IDEA what she is talking about. Google! Yet she has the gall, the temerity, the ova to assume an air of authority as she extrapolates her ignorance into an argument for using the law to reinforce the marginalization of homsexual fidelity.
Give Will’s post a read and, if you can stand it, you can read Roback Morse’s as well.
What is really scary is that Roback Morse’s article is the first of two parts. Well, at least this will give her some time to research the second part.
Via Julian Sanchez.
Update: Kieren Healy at Crooked Timber serves up The Beast with Two Robacksand, among many other points, notes:
Morse claims that a central feature of heterosexual sex within marriage is that it is �an engine of sociability that calls us out of our self-centeredness.� If anything, the opposite seems to be the case. A long-standing idea in sociology is that as you meet someone and later marry and have children, your social network will tend to get smaller. It�s called dyadic withdrawal.
Chinese Photoblog
When I have a bit more time I’m going back here to look more pictures from China, primarily, I believe, of Beijing.
While it would help if there were a sentence or two providing context/location for some of the pictures it is still pretty clear that they are folks just like us.
Via Tim Bishop’s The Midnight Blog.