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• wizbango! tech

  CM PwnD!

  01.17.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I am sure you all noticed that this site has acted flaky lately. At first, I kept thinking that it was due to my host, Globat.com not doing a proper job of, hell, maintaining ONE damn SQL db. However, on monday, I discovered that CM had been hacked by some Saudi scriptkiddie named TrusT_Me.
  You [...]

• univerCity, wizbango! tech

  That Conference Paper

  12.07.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  In March, I am presenting on a panel at the annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies. A few weeks ago, we co-panelists thought about ways in which we could enhance the process of writing and discussion on the papers before the conference happens. We are convinced that our idea for the panel could [...]

• wizbango! tech

  Mughal India Room

  12.06.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have been thinking about digital archives in the humanities - specifically for historians - for a while now. I believe that certain technologies, under the web 2.0 rubric*, provide new and exciting ways for historians to completely rethink their notions of archive, access, and, perhaps, public knowledge itself.
  Take, for instance, the Mughal India [...]

• holydays, wizbango! tech

  G∞gle

  09.27.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Happy 8th birthday, Google. You have changed everything. Remember. Don’t. Be. Evil.

• univerCity, wizbango! tech

  Q: My GPA is horrible. Where can I buy a new one?

  09.25.06 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Today’s NYT Magazine cover story by Michael Lewis, The Ballad of Big Mike, relates a rags-on-the-way-to-riches tale about a young football player at Ole Miss. Only the most compulsive Sunday NYT readers will have actually made their way through this dull yet strangely disturbing tale of an inner-city lad weighing 334 lbs. (which figure [...]

• univerCity, wizbango! tech

  Term-paper Crime Syndicates, Pt. II

  09.18.06 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Charles McGrath has written a part deux to his expose of term paper mills in today’s Week in Review section of the NYT. Let it be noted that Mr. McGrath has for some reason not discovered the Pakistani Crime Syndicate we unearthed after his article last week. The paper he commissioned this week, a [...]