http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082101778.html
5 Myths About Health Care Around the World
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/325/5945/1181
Galvanizing science departments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest-running_Broadway_shows
Longest running Broadway shows
http://chronicle.com/article/Atop-the-Latest-US-News/48084/
new US News rankings
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407705
A threat to scientific communication
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/04/future.library.technology/index.html
The future of libraries, with or without books
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/01/alan.turing.petition/index.html
Petition for Alan Turing
http://www.inyourpocket.com/data/download/sofia.pdf
Nice guide about Sofia
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2009/08/31/marinoff
Hiring in a Philosophy dept
http://bigeyedeer.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/modern-life2.gif?w=500&h=408
Modern life is rubbish 
http://www.convinceme.net/
Debates
http://blog.codalism.com/?p=773
Citing papers that you haven’t read
http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/trigramviz/
Trigram visualization
http://lucatrevisan.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/the-end-of-uc-berkeley-as-we-know-it/#more-1427
The end of UC Berkeley as we know it
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/issue_pdf/printtoc_pdf/325/5939.pdf
Science special issue on Network Science
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/07/22/cb.you.said.what.interview/index.html
43 weird things said in job interviews
http://ilo2009usa.blogspot.com
http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~msliw/lingw/iol/index.php
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115385&org=OLPA&from=news
Linguistics Olympiad
http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/
Resources about learning Polish
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123119236117055127.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
The best job in the world!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/technology/internet/13influence.html
Another cool internet paper from Kleinberg and co.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20090717-1969-feature/?hp
1969
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/07/10/nrc
The new NRC rankings criteria
http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=448
Building a better collective memory
http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=545
Doing Science Online
http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=465
Science beyond individual understanding
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html
Why we must ration health care (by Peter Singer)
http://www.phishtank.com
Check here if a suspicious email is not a phishing attempt
http://www.webometrics.info/top6000.asp
Another university ranking
http://www.usnews.com/sections/education/worlds-best-colleges/index.html
Another university ranking
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/06/harvard.html
Harvard’s endowment problems
http://retrobulgaria.com/main.html
Retro Bulgaria
http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/nature05535.html
Open peer review
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/UriAlon/nurturing/index.html
Materials for Nurturing Scientists
http://worldsbestfilms.blogspot.com
Movie rankings
http://1linereview2.blogspot.com/2009/07/50-greatest-films.html
Movie rankings
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1554
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516499/
NLTK book is out
Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Whereas the party of the first part, also known as “Lawyer”, and
the party of the second part, also known as “Light Bulb”, do hereby
and forthwith agree to a transaction wherein the party of the second
part shall be removed from the current position as a result of failure
to perform previously agreed upon duties, i.e., the lighting,
elucidation, and otherwise illumination of the area ranging from the
front (north) door, through the entryway, terminating at an area just
inside the primary living area, demarcated by the beginning of the
carpet, any spillover illumination being at the option of the party of
the second part and not required by the aforementioned agreement
between the parties.
The aforementioned removal transaction shall include, but not be
limited to, the following. The party of the first part shall, with or
without elevation at his option, by means of a chair, stepstool,
ladder or any other means of elevation, grasp the party of the second
part and rotate the party of the second part in a counter-clockwise
direction, this point being tendered non-negotiable. Upon reaching a
point where the party of the second part becomes fully detached from
the receptacle, the party of the first part shall have the option of
disposing of the party of the second part in a manner consistent with
all relevant and applicable local, state and federal statutes. Once
separation and disposal have been achieved, the party of the first
part shall have the option of beginning installation. Aforesaid
installation shall occur in a manner consistent with the reverse of
the procedures described in step one of this self-same document, being
careful to note that the rotation should occur in a clockwise
direction, this point also being non-negotiable. The above described
steps may be performed, at the option of the party of the first part,
by any or all agents authorized by him, the objective being to produce
the most possible revenue for the Partnership.