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Arab Spring Arrives Late in Israel
Source: Israelis march for lower living costsSource: 250,000 Protest Cost of Living in Israel “We know that we cannot achieve everything,” Itzik Shmuly, the chairman of the National Union of Students, acknowledged from the podium in Tel Aviv. “But...
Notes About Networks
This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...
Obama Administration Considers Depriving American Citizens of Their Constitutional Rights
It is time to start shouting. Representatives and appointees of the Obama administration—particularly David Axelrod and Attorney General Erich H. Holder—are considering abridging one of the most important Supreme Court interpretations of the Fifth Amendment, the right against self-incrimination,...
Instant Gratification: Saving Web Bookmarks Everywhere Using Yojimbo, AppleScript, and MobileMe
I’ve been working with Save PDF to Yojimbo and Yojimbo Collection From Front Window for just a little over a month and I’ve experienced some weird glitches. The most difficult of these glitches seems to happen when I have...
Saving Web Documents Everywhere Using Yojimbo, AppleScript, and MobileMe
As a former academic and currently unaffiliated researcher, I feel fairly compelled to meticulously and comprehensively document my reading, including my online web reading. Years ago, I made the shift to RSS and began using client-side bookmarking software and...
Mistersquid’s Web-Based Photo Album
In an Age Before Web-Based Student Information Services In 1998, a faculty at the University of Virginia English Department ran into a problem many academics will recognize. A former student of his had asked him for a recommendation. The...
Full Speed Reverse
In the last month, there’s been a lot of mainstream media attention on the borderlands between paper print and digital print, between text and etext. Google seems to be the focus of much of this interest, and my guess...
Reorganizing This Movable Type Blog: Mistersquid Refreshed
Before returning to California after a 17-year adventure in the world of higher education (one that may not quite be done done), I restructured the way I was developing material for this blog. That restructuring was born of a...
Image Maps with Rollover Effects
Image maps were interesting for about three and a half minutes in 1992. Then JavaScript came out and offered developers and users interactive feedback for linked images. Image maps and their associated <area> tags could not (and still do not)...
Simpleminded
After finishing the major work for a new web page, I discovered the page wasn’t properly rendering on Internet Explorer. I expected some discrepancies because the page layout used some moderately advanced CSS. What I didn’t expect was that the...
Boycott Thomson Research
My work currently depends upon Thomson Research’s EndNote. However, because Thomson is currently in the process of suing George Mason University for developing open-source Zotero, I will begin the process of looking for a replacement for EndNote. I recommend all...
Don’t Say I Never Gave You Nothin’
One day before my 40th birthday, I posted a ringtone based Honeycut’s Exodus Honey (the score for Leopard’s Intro video). I’ve gotten many seconds of ringing pleasure from that ringtone, but since then I’ve been bothered by the everyone-or-no one...
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