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    NSF Workshop Report on Qualitative Research

    by  • March 10, 2009 • Academia, Links, Research • 0 Comments

    The report for NSF’s two-day workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research is now available. The goals of the workshop were to (quoted from the report): articulate the standards used in their particular field to ensure rigor across the range of qualitative methodological approaches; identify common criteria shared across the four disciplines for...

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    Death and Taxes: 2009 Poster

    by  • February 19, 2009 • Links, Politics • 3 Comments

    Have you seen this fantastic poster from WallStats? I’m digging interesting visualizations even more than usual lately, and I especially like this one of our federal spending. I’m not posting it here to start an argument about how we should spend; I just really love the poster and how it shows us where we...

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    Moving Data

    by  • July 27, 2008 • Code, Links, Technology • 0 Comments

    A couple months ago someone hacked into a perfectly innocent server some friends and I use for things like storing backups of our dissertations and running Perl scripts. I was in Seattle when this happened so couldn’t be much help in the recovery process. The helpful people at SI Computing recovered all the data...

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    Flickr junkie turned photojournalist

    by  • May 21, 2008 • Links • 1 Comment

    I’m on Now Public* as a contributing photographer again.  This time, someone requested the use of some of my pictures of salmon at and from the Pike Place Market in Seattle.  I don’t know much about salmon supplies and how they affect people, but this may be a year to learn.  The story claims...

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    365 Beers wrap up

    by  • May 4, 2008 • Beer, Links • 3 Comments

    A year has come and gone. My “365 beers in 365 days” adventure officially ended in April, and now I can go back to drinking what I like when I want it. I learned to appreciate the biting hops in an IPA, the crisp drinkability of a Pilsner, and the room temperature smoothness of...

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    New-ish and Useful: Seafood Selector

    by  • May 2, 2008 • Links, New to Me • 0 Comments

    I like a Patagonia tooth fish (a.k.a. Chilean sea bass) as much as the next girl, maybe even more, but it’s time for me to be more responsible with my seafood selections. Luckily, the Environmental Defense Fund makes that ridiculously easy by providing both a PDF and a mobile-web viewable version of their Seafood...

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    New (to me) and not Useful: emacs therapist

    by  • March 24, 2008 • adSense, Links, OS X • 0 Comments

    Lifehacker comes through again with something fun. This time, it’s a software Easter Egg – emacs Therapist! To use the emacs Therapist (Mac OS X only), open Terminal, type emacs, hit return, hit Escape, then type xdoctor. You get Eliza. Ha! That can kill some time. If you’re looking for other ways to kill...

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    Yes, sometimes I read the Journal

    by  • March 20, 2008 • Links, Technology • 0 Comments

    In one of last week’s Wall Street Journals, there was a thoughtful little piece about our near-helplessness in the face of all the information available online.  You can read it here.  Lee Gomes compares us humans and the internet to cats and laser pointers.  Trust me, it kind of works.  I admit, mostly I...

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    Best Jobs of 2008: Professor

    by  • February 14, 2008 • Feminism, Links, Politics • 0 Comments

    U.S. News included “Professor” on its list of 31 best jobs for 2008. That’s cool. They even provide an executive summary of why they like it so much. They’re right that tenure is pretty sweet, if you can get it. They’re not so right that being a woman helps you land a tenure-track job...

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