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2011

March 8 Content Strategy and the Birth of Occupations · March 7 Kuhn's Ashtray · March 7 Karpik's "Valuing the Unique" · March 3 Sic Semper Pecuniae · March 1 The American Sociological Association has Interest Rate Swap Obligations? · February 24 Advice on Talks from Leslie Lamport · February 23 Choice of Language and its Consequences · February 22 The Political Theory of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi · February 20 The U-Shaped Theory of Higher Education · February 18 Aligning labels in circular igraph layouts · February 10 Income Growth Shares over Time · February 4 Sure in this country you'd be known as Micheál Luas · February 4 Gender divides in Philosophy and other disciplines · January 26 Daniel Bell · January 24 Better Book Titles · January 21 Exporting Org-Mode to PDF via XeLaTeX · January 20 Seeing the Market · January 18 Workflow and the Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences · January 13 A carpet? · January 12 Sociology Department Rankings: Now with Added Legitimacy · January 11 Two Syllabuses · January 11 Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences: Now Easier to Install · January 11 Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences now gets ESS via ELPA · January 9 Crowdsourcing Sociology Department Rankings · January 7 Viviana Zelizer on gifts of money · January 4 Testing MathJax

2010

December 28 Cognition and Comic Sans · December 23 Happy New Year going forward · December 9 PowerBook 145B vs MacBook Air 11" · October 31 After Zombie Economics, Zombie Sociology · October 17 Uses This Interview · October 17 Nerdery · September 22 Om · August 31 Another year, another theory syllabus · July 10 Every Mixed Metaphor has its Fifteen Minutes in the Sun · June 28 England's Finest · May 23 The Case of the Disappearing Teaspoons · May 14 Actually, having one Identity for yourself is a Breaching Experiment · May 5 Presumed Consent in Theory and Practice · May 3 Room for Debate on Presumed Consent · April 10 What do you mean your wife won't take care of them? · April 10 The AGIL Turkey · April 2 I'm ready for my closeup · March 29 To each according to his knees · March 24 I think I know what you mean ... · March 20 Ten Influential Books · March 12 Chatroulette · March 11 Carroll on Colbert · March 4 Lists and Loops in R · March 1 Gained in Translation · February 16 Easily display information about R objects in Emacs/ESS · February 5 Crocodile Tears Lie Thick on the Page of the American Political Science Review · February 1 On Knowing when to Stop · February 1 On Knowing how to Start · January 28 Not your Father's Communicative Action · January 21 Naturalizing the Social, and Vice Versa · January 11 Al Gore, Type Nerd · January 9 Biblatex and the Textmate Latex bundle · January 7 Top Jobs

2009

December 22 Presumed Consent Again · December 11 I can't go on. I'll go on. Now I can't get off. · December 2 The Scottish Verdict · November 29 Minarets in Switzerland · November 25 The Visual Display of Stupid · November 24 Sixty Seconds of Thanksgiving · November 2 Facts and Values · October 19 Bach and before, Ives and after · October 17 Pissing off the other crowd · October 13 Looking at Data · October 12 Make Shift-Enter do a lot in ESS · September 30 Goodbye, John · September 27 Roman Polanski · September 26 Rotten Borough · August 26 The Impact Factor's Matthew Effect · August 23 niklas luhmann is still not on my syllabus · August 20 Social Theory Syllabus · August 11 What I bought at the ASAs · August 5 ASA Bingo 2009 · July 30 Cocky Bastard · June 26 Unibody construction, now with added features · June 25 Oh baby, give me one more chance · June 11 Love as Social Fact · June 5 Friday Night Frivolity: Finnish Edition · May 26 Sotomayor · May 18 Shake-n-Bake Social Theory redux · May 5 University flamewars · April 14 More Teabag Matron? · April 10 Inside all of us is ... · March 27 One Man and His Dog and His Giant LED Array · March 20 Wife Swap · March 16 Aigamemnon (A Fragment) · March 6 Sockpuppeting your way into Trouble · February 26 FaceBook Quiz · February 5 Paging Richard MacDuff · January 29 All You Zombies · January 25 Philosophy BibTeX file · January 20 Like a Tiny Omen · January 10 The Metropolis and Mental Life · January 8 The uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy (Suburban Line) · January 7 R in The New York Times