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Monthly Archives March 2007

Job Hunt Update

I've been fairly restrained (at least by my standards) in talking about my job hunt on this blog  because I wanted to keep these details fairly low key for a variety of reasons, not least because I know that more and more employers do web searches for potential employers and you never know what might […]

Posted 03 March 2007 § Jobs § Main Page ‡ Comments (6) °

Friday Fun Link – Conservapedia (March 2, 2007)

The son of conservative icon, Phyllis Schlafly, Andrew Schlafly has set-up a conservative alternative to the “liberal-biased” Wikipedia called “Conservapedia“. (via MetaFilter which includes some of the funnier excerpts from the site.)

Posted 03 March 2007 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (4) °

FTRW 2007 – Day 6 – "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

As a bit of a follow-up to yesterday's FTRW post about an attempt to ban “Fahrenheit 451” in Texas last fall, here's an earlier essay by Ray Bradbury, on various attempts to censor his work over the years.  In other news, my appearance on the “Book Chick” radio show a couple nights ago talking about […]

Posted 03 March 2007 § Censorship § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged:

FTRW 2007 – Day 5 – Irony As Big As Texas

Last fall, a parent in Texas demanded the removal of the book,  Fahrenheit 451 from his 15-year old daughter's school library. (The subject matter of that book being so famous that its title has become shorthand for “censorship”.)   And because you couldn't make this stuff up, the challenge happened the week after the American Library […]

Posted 02 March 2007 § Censorship § LibrarySchool § Main Page ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: