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In this issue: job update
Web site recommendations: IT/music/misc

The job search process if finally over. Starting next September, I'm
going to be Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at
Northwestern University with a courtesy appointment in Sociology. I'm
extremely excited about this opportunity. I'll post updates about the
transition as things move forward.

I wanted to add that the whole job search process has been fascinating..
for the most part grueling, stressful, and exhausting, but at times also
exciting and exhilerating. I got to visit some great places and had the
good fortune to meet some wonderful people for which I'm very grateful.

Also, immense amounts of thanks and appreciation go out to my wonderful
family and friends, and my tireless advisors and mentors for all their
support!

And now on to our regular programming...

For the Mix Tape, a Digital Upgrade and Notoriety
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/30/technology/circuits/30mixx.html
&
Limerick Mix
http://www.artofthemix.org/getmotw.asp?strMixID=41387
&
Haiku Mix
http://www.artofthemix.com/FindAMix/getcontents.asp?strMixID=39972&format=CD

Launching E-MIX - my own CD mix club inspired by the above, consider
joining today!
http://www.eszter.com/emix

Search Engine Dictionary for search related terminology
http://www.searchenginedictionary.com/

A friend's two great new course syllabi
Internet Policy
http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/classes/SP03/396-6/
Play & Technology
http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/classes/SP03/396-5/

Using a blog for teaching (Media in the Info Age course)
http://mitia.karakerwin.net/blog.html

Third UCLA Internet Report [pdf file]
http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pdf/UCLA-Internet-Report-Year-Three.pdf

In Net Attacks, Defining the Right to Know
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/30/technology/circuits/30secu.htm
&
for background: Virus Overwhelms Global Internet Systems
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20030125/D7OPB5980.html

Judge Bars Sending of Unwanted Email
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030123/D7OO0PR80.html

An interesting detailed report on the DC protests
http://www.buffalobeast.com/article.php?article=01_0

The Protest-crowd Numbers Game
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/01/24/crowds/index_np.html
(info about new options for reading articles on Salon:
http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2003/01/22/new_deal/ )

Survivors of the Shoan Visual History Foundation - incredible project that
has collected over 50,000 testimonies from Holocaust survivors
http://www.vhf.org/

Pennsylvania's "Do Not Call" Hotline
http://www.nocallsplease.com/

Senate Blocks Privacy Project
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/politics/24PRIV.html

Ashcroft Online 1.0
http://www.idleworm.com/nws/2002/12/aol10.shtml

Who Dies for Bush Lies?
http://www.whodies.com

World Population Simulation Growth (dynamic map, requires QuickTime)
http://www.iitap.iastate.edu/gcp/issues/pop/growth.html

Population pyramids
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/clock.html

Animated pyramid for the US
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Animation/pyramid.html

Animated pyramids for the world
http://www.magnet.at/heilig/dto_new/ani_1.html

Love Manuals Are Evil
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/01/28/chocano_book/index.html

The Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer
http://www.mautnerproject.org

Fun January courses at Smith (my alma mater)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/01/23/lite.courses.ap/index.html

On design work in the men's bathroom at Shipol Airport, Amsterdam
http://maddog.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$68

Do the Math column (by a young Princeton math prof)
http://slate.msn.com/?id=3944&QueryText=Do+the+Math&Action=DepartmentSrch&GroupB\
y=Department

Space Invaders - the classic arcade game now in Flash version
http://www.spaceinvaders.de/
&
playing other 80s games online
http://www.behlau.net/videogames.html

Today's quote:
"Just enough is more." -- Milton Glaser

Recently on Eszter's Blog:
Launching E-MIX
Staying warm
The future
M$ vocab & blog definitions
Sotudg
Classifications and world soccer
Oh-oh
Sex unknown - now passport-proof
Cool Google features
See them here: http://www.esztersblog.com

From E-BLOG: Classifications and world soccer (1/25/03)
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000177.html for underlying links
or to comment

Last night, some good friends had a nice dinner party; present were two
Americans, an Irish, a Brazilian and a Hungarian (we also have other
identities but this is relevant to the topic here). Somehow we got on to
the topic of the World Soccer Championships. It's one of those rare
cultural events where even those without much interest in their national
identity will proudly dress in their national colors and seek out every
opportunity to showcase their affiliation.

I was made to endure some painful comments about Hungary's lack of ability
to qualify in the past few years. In fact, my Brazilian friend confused
Hungary's presence in the finals in 1954 with its last qualifying year
(that was in the '80s). Perhaps this was simply a bitter reflection of
Hungary's win over Brazil back in 1954.

So how bad is Hungary these days if it can't even qualify when the US can?
Cute question. If you know anything about the World Soccer Championships
you know that qualifiers are broken down by continent. So while the US
conveniently gets paired with countries that lack a strong soccer
tradition, countries in Europe and elsewhere compete with extremely
serious rivals.

That's when we got onto discussing how many slots are allocated to various
continents. Latin America lost one recently. And it was at this point in
the conversation that one of my friends commented: so shouldn't the
European Union just send one team? You would never guess which of the five
of us came up with that idea. An interesting one, to be sure. I never
thought all those countries would give up on their national currencies
(another important component of national identity [pdf]) so who knows,
maybe one day they will join forces and send one team to the World
Championships. Yeah right.

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