Like sand for water

A neat video showing that sand behaves like water.

Hot in Herrre

What happens when two video game combatants decide to lay down their arms and get funky? Well, you might get something like Dance, Voldo, Dance.

Middle East photographs

I've spent the last three days scanning negatives and designing and producing a site to exhibit some of the black and white photos I took while in the Middle East. A color site will have to come later (when I have the time to edit all the photos). You can find the site here.

Pentrx: Pen Spinning Revolution

I never got but the basic tricks down (and that took forever). Some of the moves shown on this site are beyond what meagre abilities I might ever hope to have. (courtesy #!/usr/bin/girl)

Terror, Terrorism, and the Human Condition

This is my 200th post on this blog. Just thought I'd note that. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my day. Guillemette guilted me into working (she's been working on her book all weekend) and so I spent part of my afternoon doing this. About the book: In an attempt to explore the impact of terrorism at its most basic level--that of sowing fear and anxiety--this book investigates our now centuries-long attraction to, and dread of, terror and its progeny, including terrorism, or political terror, and mass murder. It is also a call to thought, and an appeal to reasoned action. Charles Webel argues that while a "war" on terrorism cannot succeed in eliminating terror from our human condition, this does not mean that it cannot, and should not, be confronted by means other than war.

Women's Police Stations

There are times that I wish I did read all the books that I design, especially those for the academic press for which I do work. This book "examines the changing and complex relationship between women and the state, and the construction of a gendered citizenship and justice, using the case study of women's police stations in Sao Paulo. These are police stations run by police women to deal with crimes against women, such as domestic violence, assault, and rape." Think of how much better informed if I could read all these books (and retain the facts—that's the other problem. Remembering what I read).