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What’s better than homemade North African harissa pepper sauce? Learning the recipe.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels: ‘Atheism leads to brutality’ and the purpose of life is ‘to glorify God and enjoy Him forever’ (To read the article from 2009, click image or here)
This weekend the NYT published Shaila Dewan and Robert Gebeloff’s story about the richest 1 percent of Americans (a more diverse bunch than you’d think). The graphics department published a lot of work in print and online to accompany the article. Online, there was an interactive map that…
ZIM COMIX! A gift for @JhonenV for being so nice to me! This was a lot of fun to draw. Why is Zim’s head all bloated? Well you’ve been on the internet this long, you tell me.
The annual NFL football franchise valuations list has just been released by Forbes (full list here). This year - for the first time ever - the average franchise in the league is worth over a billion dollars.
15 of the NFL’s 33 franchises are worth over a billion apiece. The most valuable team…
When another scholar worries that if one begins with data, one can “go anywhere,” Ramsay makes it clear that going anywhere is exactly what he wants to encourage. The critical acts he values are not directed at achieving closure by arriving at a meaning; they are, he says, “ludic” and they are “distinguished … by a refusal to declare meaning in any form.” The right question to propose “is not ‘What does the text mean?’ but, rather, ‘How do we ensure that it keeps on meaning’ — how … can we ensure that our engagement with the text is deep, multifaceted, and prolonged?” (“Toward an Algorithmic Criticism,” in Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 18, No. 2, 2003)
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