Category: Musicology

  • Blogging and identity panel proposal for SXSW

    Hugh Forrest, the indomitable lead organizer of South by Southwest Interactive has announced a public process for voting on and vetting panel ideas for next year’s conference. Apparently it will take several rounds, with the first round narrowing down the 173 panel proposals. The voting is open to anyone, but the votes of past attendees…

  • Is ANWR as ugly as they say?

    Jim Goldstein was up in Alaska in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge recently and brought back these photographs. He says, “A conservative friend asked me, ‘Is ANWR as really as ugly as they say it is? This alarmed me a great deal after having one of the best photo trips I’ve taken to date. The…

  • Scaling back the blog(s)

    I just don’t post to RFB much these days. Nor do my other contributors. Does that blog need to continue? Should I put it to rest? I like the “this day in” stuff from the past, but of course a lot of it is dated. Is there any value to a legacy blog-on-blogging that doesn’t…

  • Snakes on the m.f. plane

    Oh, man. I can’t wait to see Snakes on a Plan, starring Samuel L. Jackson. When Mike Stillman posted

  • Analogy as the core of cognition

    I majored in philosophy in college. At Princeton nearly all liberal arts majors (and many of the engineering students too) have to write a senior thesis to graduate. I was interested in philosophy of language and wrote a thesis called “Is Metaphor Necessary for Communication?” In it I argued that metaphor was much more than…

  • My blogger code (2.0)

    Am I a geek? Yes, I am a geek. B9 D+++ T+ K S F I+ O X- E+ L C-\- Y4 R- W P+ M5 N N+ (via [Powazek](http://www.powazek.com/2006/03/000568.html), and wondering why they use N twice.) That is all.