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LifestreamMulticulturalism and “The Politics of Recognition” Charles Taylor with commentary by K. Anthony Appiah, Jürgen Habermas, Steven C. Rockefeller, Michael Walzer, and Susan Wolf. (Swedish edition, 1999, 176 pages)
(PU Press) A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and “The Politics of Recognition,” this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Via Karma. This is something really neat. Twofifty.org “allows you to keep an overview of which movies from the IMDb Top-250 you’ve seen.” Complete with AJAX flair in the GUI.
I think I’ve finally fixed the Archive List display for the blog. I should have RTFM because it was all in there. Basically I had to do some hacking to circumvent a Nucleus function that generates archive links. It would be a lot easier if I didn’t run Nucleus in a sub-dir.
For some reason there [...]
Sometimes called a dough-gun. With discs and pastry nozzles. Does this seem like a strange thing to get?
Well I just got one. Seemed like an awfully cool gadget to have around, even if I am more of a muffin person myself. Also it reminded me of those dispenser guns you use for silicon construction sealant.
It [...]
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering. Norman G. Finkelstein (official | wikipedia). Paperback. Second edition.
(ZMAG) Norman Finkelstein’s book on the Holocaust Industry is guided by his parents’ legacy. Both of them were survivors of the Warsaw ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Thus, the author has a personal interest in preserving [...]
Comments have been activated for the personal blog (i.e. this one). It had to be done, despite the obvious triteness of comments that one could expect. For one, I moved all html and php design posts here, and those topics have been pretty active in the past.
Perhaps I’ve mentioned this before, but I wanted to add those nice little icons (like ) that you can see at, among other places, Wikipedia designating external or off-site URLs. Should be simple enough to do right? Not so.
There are essentially two ways to go about this and both use CSS. One that will work, [...]
Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
Susan Moller Okin et. al. (Stanford obit)
A buzzword for political correctness, multiculturalism with its implications of ethnocentrism and group rights has, inevitably, become a shibboleth. Feminist theorist and Stanford political science professor Okin assesses what adhering to sanctioned cultural practices (such as female genital mutilation, polygamy, child marriage and forced illiteracy) [...]
