The entire site and the project wiki is as empty as this. It all seems a bit masturbatory to me: all the illusion of something worthwhile, but really in the end narcissistic self-love.

Furthermore Mann is not arguing from a position of ludditism or a desire to cling to the “dying book”. On the contrary, if we read his past works, Mann praises the computer as allowing new avenues for finding information that researchers would not found otherwise. However, Mann does call for caution against digital searches taking the place of traditional methods of browsing; rather, the two are naturally complimentary.

So I introduce Xuan-Yen to an Open Access journal called the Anthropology of Food. In actuality, I had a little bit of an ethical dilemma. I am going back for a Masters degree and they, that is the University of Toronto, turned my library card back on a few weeks ago. So, […]

Elayne Riggs noticed this article from the New York Time which begins: Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon have amassed thousands of surface-to-surface rockets, including missiles with the range to strike cities in northern Israel, according to senior Israeli and Western officials.However, the very next sentence reads: “As the Bush administration moves to confront Iraq, some officials are concerned that Hezbollah could step up its attacks on Israel.” Something amiss here.Still, officials worry that the buildup of so many rockets could tempt Hezbollah to expand its operations. Adding to this worry is the fear that Iran or Syria might encourage Hezbollah to stir up tensions along Israel’s northern frontier to divert attention from Iraq and complicate the Bush administration’s plans to topple Saddam Hussein.