From Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com: I have written for perhaps a dozen major publications over the span of my career, and the one with the most thorough fact-checking process is by some margin Sports Illustrated. Although this is an indication of the respect with which SI accords its brand, it does not speak so well… Continue reading

This always seems to come up in edupunk conversations, and seems to be one of the main attacks against edupunk, even from great people who I respect no end — hey, they’ll say, we can’t have a knee-jerk reaction against corporate solutions. They aren’t necessarily evil. It may surprise you, but I completely agree. In… Continue reading

Taking a half-day, and then doing some GOTV. Because of anticipated parking problems a lot of the polling places have been shifted since 2006 (and even since the primary), so there’s a real need to get people that information. Aside from the polling, which indicates a likely Obama victory in NH, I’d be very surprised… Continue reading

Chronicle today, in front page article: Poll: Students Less Engaged Than Thought In four key states, a poll sponsored by CBS News, UWIRE, and The Chronicle has found, undergraduates tend to favor Barack Obama. But not many are working for him. The core of which is this statement: Students taking active roles in the campaign… Continue reading

So, I’ve stopped hacking around on my blog, and settled on the new theme. And we’re sticking with it. And for the first time since I launched this blog I’ve given it a title other than my name. The name, Tran|script, is meaningful to me, because it was the name of one of my first… Continue reading

I’m not the first to say this, but as much as I hate polling culture, I think Insta-polls have done a surprising amount of good. It used to be the pundits would spend the hour after the debate telling everybody who intelligent people thought won. Then the next day the pollsters would call everybody, and… Continue reading

I mucked my theme some time ago, then decided I was too sick of it to fix it. So I went through approximately 2 billion WordPress themes, before deciding I’d build a new one from the ground up based on the Sandbox theme. I don’t have time to do it all at once though, so… Continue reading

I was playing KEXP on my computer over the weekend, and I say to my five year old “Hey isn’t it cool we can play a station from the Internet on the computer?” She looks at me like I’m stupid. “On the computer?” she says, quizzically. “Yes.” I say. She laughs. She thinks I’m being… Continue reading

Jim Groom notes the creation of a Copyright Czar. The bill is here. I’m guessing since the “Drug Czar” idea worked out so well, the government just couldn’t help itself. You want to know how screwed up the world is? The sponsor of this bill, Patrick Leahy, is a huge Grateful Dead fan. From Wikipedia:… Continue reading