Jason's commonplace book RSS

Quotations and such-like. My real blog is The Salt-Box, but I also write for a couple of others.
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Monkeys have a memory for grammar - life - 08 July 2009 - New Scientist
Jul
7th
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Veer: Products: Type: Type: UMT0000447 - Phaeton Victorian-esque font. Pure awesome.
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The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Excellent demonstration of the way our brain interprets—rather than simply perceives—the world.
Jun
30th
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Construct Your CSS | WYSIWYG Layout Editor, Semantic & Table-Free | Based on Blueprint & jQuery
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British Newspapers - Home Searchable index of Colindale archive, with some free content.
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Map of the X-Men's interrelationships
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Small wins for academic labor . . . but not AAUP.
Jun
19th
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Tenure and the Two-Year College - Chronicle.com “The nationwide assault on tenure has found a beachhead, it seems, at community colleges.”
“And once the opposition stands astride the carcass of community-college tenure, is there any doubt where it…
Jun
18th
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Quick Takes: June 18, 2009 - Inside Higher Ed Draconian cuts ahead at the U of California system.
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17th
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Stanford Study of Writing - Home “The Stanford Study of Writing is a five-year longitudinal study investigating the writing practices and development of Stanford students during their undergraduate years and their first year beyond…