Month: October 2012

Digging deep into my file of photos and looking for one from north of the Mason Dixon Line (though not far north of it), let me combine a trivia question…

Today's Daily Illini has a nice article about planning for access to social media at the end-of-life.  It focuses around Jason Mazzone's article that, "Facebook's Afterlife," which appeared last spring in…

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS-WILLIAM S. BOYD SCHOOL OF LAW seeks applicants and nominations for the position of Dean. Founded in 1998, Boyd School of Law has already made a…

Gonzaga Law School, the Gonzaga Institute for Hate Studies, and the Washington Task Force on Race and the Criminal Justice System invite submissions for a conference titled, The Pursuit of…

Michael Bérubé has an essay at the Chronicle, "Why I Resigned the Paterno Chair," on why ... he resigned as the Paterno Family Professor of English at Penn State.  I guess it…

From an email that I received earlier today: The Department of Political Science at Binghamton University (SUNY) invites applications for an Assistant Professor in American Politics, to begin August 2013.…

Congratulations to Al Roth, co-winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics for "the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."  In an earlier post, I labeled…

Well, Bill Reynolds has called me out for all the southern monuments and buildings I've been showing.  So ... here's a monument to an admiral important to the US war…

Every time I visit Petersburg I'm impressed with how many really grand pre-Civil War buildings they have -- including their courthouse and a few others I've used for trivia over…

Continuing with the absurdly difficult trivia -- this is a courthouse in a pretty obscure place.  Identify the courthouse at right.  In the  background, just to the left of the…