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A few years back…probably more than a few years now, I asked George about an idea I had.

I thought that what the blogosphere lacked was a central place where they could get information on up-to-date research regarding racism in its various forms. Research on implicit racial attitudes, on racial disparities in health, on race as it relates to american political development, etc. There were a few of us who were both writing on blogs AND involved in this type of research, but only a few.

I didn’t pick up the idea because I didn’t have the time.

But the folks at Racism Review have appeared to. It’s worth bookmarking…and the articles written by the scholars involved are worth googling.

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Black dada nihilismus

Ego Trippin

Leda, After the Swan

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While I’m trying to work out the kinks of this book chapter.

The New York Times will no longer charge for its premium content. Because of my university ties I didn’t have to pay for content, but I did have to go through a few extra steps that made it a pain in the ass.

The Washington Post on the other hand believes OJ is more important than the Jena 6. (Thanks to Jack and Jill Politics.)

Speaking of, thanks to Michael Fisher from which I got the following video on the Jena 6:

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Finally, part I and part II of an interview with Stephen Graham about the present neoliberal reality of cities. For those interested in the recent (lengthy) discussions held here about black politics, and about crime fighting strategies in cities, these posts will be interesting.

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Ok. Here’s what I have. I’ve got a couple of folders with some 30,000 text files.I want to both randomly generate a list of 3,000 of these files.Then I want to somehow automatically take the text files on this list and place them into another file, preferably copying them.I know how to generate a random list using something like Excel, or SPSS, or Stata.What I don’t know how to do is automatically put them into a file as opposed to moving them there manually.Any suggestions?  I’ve got a mac, and I was figuring that maybe automator might work, but I don’t know.

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Over at Prometheus6, Earl is dealing with the paradox of choice.  If you’ve got a nice chunk of time, go over there and check that video out…then take a look at what Malcolm Gladwell has to say about the subject. I do happen to believe that the choice/happiness curve is bell shaped, that is to say there is some level of choice after which we become less rather than more happy. But it’s interesting to see them think about it aloud, and the analogies/images they use are pretty innovative.

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