http://hermenaut.org (an aggregator) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:02:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Design Observer's Job Board has new jobs in Denver, Boston, Cincinnati, NYC, Palo Alto, New Haven, Dubai and Munich. Companies hiring include Monigle Associates, Vuze, Kolar Design, Material ConneXion, Tiffany & Co., Group C, Funny Garbage, Arnold and Sakson & Taylor. Remember you can post jobs here too. [WD] http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/job-board-update-2/ i has a stik . . . http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/avatars-in-la/ Being, in so many respects, a "late adopter" of the tools and norms of this medium, I've only just figured out that it is possible to set up an Amazon wishlist and then put it out in public space. In case, you know, any reader out there wants to express ... http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/when-you-wish-upon-a-corporate-behemoth/ Scientists at UNH are studying storm water - where it goes, and how to manage it. http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/managing-storm-water/ Jim Holt examines the origins of the joke, and how it has evolved over the centuries. http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/the-history-of-the-joke/ A new test could reveal whether the victim of a suicide attempt would try to kill himself again. http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/predicting-suicide/ From Dzyd Susan—a local paper:TRUMANSBURG, TOMPKINS COUNTY — An unusual search is going on in Tompkins County. The search is on in Trumansburg for a group of buffalo that escaped from a farm today. The buffalo were apparently wandering around a state park and police are still trying to locate ... http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/the-other-kind-of-buffalo/ At the Harper’s blog, Wyatt Mason interviews Adam Thirlwell, the author of The Delighted States: A book of novels, romances, & their unknown translators, containing ten languages, set on four continents, & accompanied by maps, portraits, squiggles, illustrations, & a variety of helpful indexes. As a whole, the interview is ... http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/interview-with-adam-thirlwell/ In honor of Raymond Chandler's 120th birthday yesterday, Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy asked a slew of folks, including Tod Goldberg, the Mystery Bookstore's Bobby McCue, Denise Hamilton and yours truly, to send birthday greetings and gifts to the hardboiled legend:Goldberg: "I like to give people presents they can use, ... http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/raymond-chandler-at-120/ Hi Em & Lo, I'm a 25-year-old gay guy living in NYC. I thought I'd ask for your suggestions and inputs for my blog, Better Than Sex. The premise of the blog is that I don't have sex for 100 days but for each of those days, I have to ... http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/advice-whats-better-than-sex/ As has been mentioned elsewhere, the new issue of the Hungarian Quarterly is now available. (Some pieces are available online, but in most instances, there’s just a sample.) There are quite a few interesting pieces, including an interview with Magda Szabó (whose most famous novel—The Door appears to be out-of-print on ... http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/new-hungarian-quarterly/ ““It’s not like there is a single moment in which everything came together,” said Wolk, 38, who moderates six panels at this weekend’s Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center downtown. “It just gradually turned into this enormous thing.”” - SignOnSanDiego.com > Entertainment > Comic-Con 2008 — Visual visionaries ... http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/it%e2%80%99s-not-like-there-is-a-single-moment-in-which-everything-came-together%e2%80%9d-said-wolk-38-who/ Happy birthday to Ladybug Mecca, born this day in 1973! Here she is with Digable Planets in their 1991 video for "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)." http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/ladybug-mecca/ Happy birthday to Lynval Golding, born this day in 1951! Here he is playing with the Specials in their 1979 video for "Gangsters." http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/lynval-golding/ For seven years, John H. Summers taught students in Harvard's Social Studies program -- simultaneously getting a crash course in elite students' sense of entitlement, he says. Now ensconced at Boston College as a visiting scholar, he's given vent to his ire in the (English) Times Higher Education Supplement, in a ... http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/frustration-off-the-tenure-track-chapter-112/ I don't know which one of the thousands of exhibitors brought the ray that speeds up time, but they've got it cranked to eleven down here in San Diego: I had enough time to walk one-tenth of the giant exhibition floor last night, said hi to no more than ... http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/savage-san-diego-a-quick-list-of-whos-where-when/ In the wake of a study by New York University's Brennan Center for Justice showing no little progress on the issue since 2000, the New York Times calls for better ballot design. [MB] http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/call-for-better-ballot-design/ On the subject of ballot design, AIGA has already partnered with the Federal Election Commission to create new guidelines for ballots and polling places. Read the report. It is also published in book form as Design for Democracy: Ballot and Election Design. [WD] http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/ballot-design/ Here's the seersucker dress (the Duro Junior pattern again) I promised to post when I got back (and I did get back, despite my flight being canceled; I got the next-to-last seat in the last row of the flight that left before my flight, and ended up arriving half an ... http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/seersucker-dress-as-promised/ Canadian songstress! http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/24/chickens-just-back-from-the-shore/