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Monday, March 27, 2006 |
Message for Students Considering Admissions Offers Currently (Leiter).
There are a number of senior offers for which I have not received permission to publish the particulars, but they are offers students considering the affected programs should know about. Therefore, let me urge students considering any of the following programs to make inquiries with those departments.
The following departments have senior offers outstanding to faculty elsewhere: Rutgers, Oxford, Harvard, Cornell, UC Davis, Northwestern, Sydney.
The following departments have faculty entertaining senior offers from elsewhere: Michigan, UCLA, Berkeley, Cornell, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, Queensland.
These are in addition to any offers reported previously.
[Leiter Reports: A Group Blog (Jan. 23-May 31 2006)]
10:22:47 PM 
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Blogger up for non-fiction award: An anonymous blog by a young
woman in war-torn Iraq has been longlisted for BBC Four's Samuel
Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
Baghdad Burning, a first-hand account written under the
pseudonym Riverbend, is one of 19 books in contention.
Others include Alan Bennett's Untold Stories, a biography of
19th-Century cook and author Mrs Beeton and a study of post-war
US-Soviet relations.
The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced on 14
June.
10:33:54 AM
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Other Rex: catching up with friends.
My life coach (Daily Show | NYT Styles) says I better get blogging again because not even Amanda reads me anymore. So here are some links:
 Chuck Olsen interviewed Bruce Sterling.
Enter the ISBN number of a book into BarnesAndNoble.com and get a quote for how much they will buy it for. Cool.
Go read Douglas Coupland's "interview" with Morrisey, which is really an essay on the state of the interview.
Even Tom Waits once did a commercial -- for dog food, no less. It's especially interesting since he later sued Frito-Lay for impersonating him.
The Top 15 Skylines in the World.
Every side-street around Microsoft campus seems to have one of those create-a-home-meal shops, so I'm not surprised to learn that Seattle is home to one of the biggest chains. From the NYT story: "The prototype, a kind of elevated cooking session among friends in a commercial kitchen, popped up in the Northwest in 1999. The concept did not take off until 2002, when two Seattle-area women streamlined the process so customers could make 12 dinners for six in two hours for under $200. That company became Dream Dinners, which opened a year later and now has 112 franchise stores, with 64 under construction." (Old MNspeak thread on the MSP-based versions.) [Fimoculous.com]
6:39:57 AM
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Most expensive Google ad keywords listed.
This list of the highest-paying Google advertising keywords is exciting for its very dullness: if there's one thing that's become clear it's that in 2006, the most aggressive users of keyword advertising are asbestos lawyers, ambulance chasers, and mortgage brokers.
$54.33 mesothelioma lawyers
$47.79 what is mesothelioma
$47.72 peritoneal mesothelioma
$47.25 consolidate loans
$47.16 refinancing mortgage
$45.55 tax attorney
$41.22 mesothelioma
$38.86 car accident lawyer
$38.68 ameriquest mortgage
Link (via Battelle)
[Boing Boing]
6:39:44 AM
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Mini-Microsoft on last week's bad news and Microsoft's reliance on Scoble to communicate with bloggers, among other topics. [Scripting News]
6:24:13 AM
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Bring Home the Biotech Bacon. If eating bacon could reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's or heart disease, would you feel better about that BLT? Dream on -- geneticists are working to produce a swine with significant amounts of omega-3 fatty acids, but it won't hit meat counters for years. [Wired News: Top Stories]
6:24:09 AM
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