I had the extreme privilege of attending a lecture today by Orhan Pamuk, as part of a series of Norton Lectures at Harvard (the rest of which I, sadly, missed). There is something about being in the presence of such greatness which is truly humbling, and at the same time, inspiring, particularly when aforementioned greatness […]
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Every day on the bus, as I scan through the feeds coming through my RSS reader, I save the best folder for last. I flip first through folders dubbed “anthroblogging” and “arabists,” ones for my Global Voices readings, and ones for work. Once I’ve read, or at least marked all as read, I come to […]
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I logged into MySpace tonight for the first time in, apparently, about a year and a half. My last hesitant update read “Jill doesn’t check MySpace. E-mail her.” I haven’t used my nickname publicly in a long time, and most of the people I know have left MySpace. I wasn’t going to delete it, but […]