February 2008

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• univerCity

  Free JSTOR

  02.15.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  A few weeks ago, danah boyd wrote her resolve to publish only in Open Access journals. I couldn’t agree more - being an ardent supporter of scholarship that is freely accessible. One of my biggest complaint about our academic world is about the inaccessibility of research to anyone without institutional affiliation or a hefty bank [...]

• homistan, talkies

  Little Terrorist

  02.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Ashvin Kumar’s Little Terrorist is a wonderful short that I accidently caught on the Sundance channel. The title is a bit misleading - I would have called it “The Wicket” - but it is heartfelt and a nice introduction to some issues of difference and sameness around the partitioned homistan.

• homistan

  A Very Brief Long History of Pakistan I

  02.09.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

• homistan

  Histories Ahead

  02.08.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  BushClinton Forever is a fun exercise is prognostication. I was just explaining that in Pakistan, the Bhutto and Sharif clans have enough heirs to keep control for the next 80 years. It helps that the military will be able to control 3 or 4 sets of 12 year increments which is necessary for bringing about [...]

• homistan

  People’s Resistance Street Theater

  02.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I do not remember if I have called to your attention the exemplary work being done for the cause of freedom and justice in Pakistan by the People’s Resistance - “a coalition of civil society organizations that includes Karachi WAF, HRCP, Women’s Peace Commission, lawyers, journalists, and other professionals.”
  They have participated in marches, rallied, [...]

• straw polls

  Primary Color

  02.05.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Just a few thoughts on Cover It Live - the liveblogging software: It works as advertised, is painless and has very nice interactivity with readers. I expect to make use of it in future panels and talks - should I go to one. A good bit of web 2.0.

• optical character recognition

  Sunday Reading for Super Week

  02.03.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  “The worst uncontrolled reentry in history occurred in July 1979, when Skylab, America’s abandoned, 78-ton space station — which had long since run out of maneuvering fuel — came down earlier than planned, raining debris across the Australian outback.”
  We would be playing out in Doha’s deserty fields and my mother, standing in the doorway, would [...]