Monthly Archives: October 2009

MIT on Twitter

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Below is an unofficial list of Twitter accounts run by on-campus entities. If you know of one that’s missing, please let me know so I can add it to the list.

Note: The MIT News Office curates an official list of MIT Twitter feeds. Their list is more comprehensive and has descriptions for each feed. I’d encourage you to take a look at their list: http://twitter.com/MITNews/campus/members. From there you can choose to follow individual MIT Twitter feeds or follow the whole list.

[This list was last updated: 09/07/2010]

Fenway Art Center … in the Back Bay?

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I always thought it strange that the Fenway Art Center is locates in the heart of the Back Bay. It’s been there a long time too. To the right is Cafe Jaffa which is intermittently open and may have a customer or two when you walk by.

Rent can’t be cheap, L’Espalier (one of the most $$$$ restaurants in boston–and worth it) was on this street until their recent move to the Mondrian hotel.

What gives?

The Leisure Link’s Launch in Boston

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From the The Leusure Link web site comes news of a cool event in Jamaica Plain studio of the “A Far Cry” players:

The Leisure Link’s Launch in Boston:
A Fundraiser for Take Back Your Time
with special guest John de Graaf, National Coordinator of Take Back Your Time

TBYT is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment.

Event Details:
Thursday, October 8th, 6:30-8:30pm
A Far Cry, 146A South Street, Jamaica Plain
RSVP to alison@theleisurelinkconsulting.com or 917-626-0344; suggested donation: $8-24

An example of hyper-local and real-time web

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I’m on the number 1 bus, Mass Ave. from Boylston to the Orange Lime T. Checking Twitter I see a friend is at the Ben Fold’s show at Boston’s Symphony Hall; it’s on the route.

As we pass by the symphony, a mother, remarking on the un-symphony like crowd says: “who’s playing tonight?” She picks up the Boston Metro (journalistic dandruff of the MBTA and a very local, paper with arts & entertainment listings).

Nothing No news.

Contrasted with the goals of the augmented reality researchers I heard speak last week at EmTech, let alone the pre-natal real-time web available now, the vignette was subtlely remarkable.

Amazon Recommendations Considered Harmful

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With apologies to the GOTO statement, the recomendation below is truly harmful.

PAT CONROY ?!?!!?!

The flanking books I can see, but Pat Conroy? I admit that I once read “Prince of Tides,” but I was on vacation at a house with a limited library. Pat Conroy v. Danielle Steele; Conroy wins that one.

But how did Amazon find out? A less than discreet relative perhaps….

(ps. Check out the review snippet from Wapo in the second image)

The 2009 Book List…

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Haven’t updated this since April, so of course my notes are a mess. Here’s the whole list, 2009 Q1-Q3;

  1. Angler, (Gellman 2008) – 1/4/2009
  2. Hot, Flat and Crowded, (Friedman 2008) – 1/14/2009
  3. When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Sedaris 2009) – 1/21/2009
  4. How Fiction Works (Wood 2009) – 1/26/2009
  5. Imperial Life in the Emerald City, inside Iraq’s green zone (Chandrasekaran 2006) – 1/28/2009
  6. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern (Vol 25 2007)
  7. The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, (Suskind 2008) – 2/7/2009
  8. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Pinker 2007) – 2/22/2009
  9. Tribes (Godin 2008) 2/23/2009
  10. The elephant, the tiger, and the cellphone: reflections on India, the emerging 21st century power (Tharoor 2007) – 2/28/2009
  11. The Encore Effect: how to achieve remarkable performance in anything you do (Sanborn 2008) – 2/28/2009
  12. The Other (Kapuściński 2008) – 2/28/2009
  13. Beyond Bullshit: Straight-Talk at Work (Culbert 2008) – 3/2
  14. The Age of Heretics (Kleiner 2008) – 3/9
  15. The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (Friedman 2005) – 3/19
  16. Planet India (Kamdar 2007) – 3/25
  17. The 21st Century Economy (Epping 2009) – 3/25
  18. In Defense of Food (Pollan 2008) – 3/27
  19. The Cost of Living (Roy 1999) – 3/31
  20. Lexus and the Olive Tree (Friedman 2000) – 4/6
  21. The God of Small Things (Roy 1997) – 4/12
  22. Development as Fredom (Sen 1999) – 4/3
  23. Heat, Bill Buford
  24. In The Graveyard of Empires, Seth G. Jones
  25. Under The Banner of Heaven, John Krakauer
  26. Muhammad, Karen Armstrong
  27. One to Nine, Hodges
  28. In Pursuit of Elegance, Matt May
  29. That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
  30. The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
  31. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Attwood
  32. Lake of the Woods, Tim O’Brien
  33. The Shipping News, E . Annie Proulx
  34. Busted, Edmund Andrews
  35. The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb.
  36. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White
  37. The Genius Machine, Gerald Sindell
  38. Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort
  39. Hanibal Rising
  40. The Handmaid’s Tail, Margaret Attwood
  41. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Thomas E. Ricks
  42. The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, Ron Suskind
  43. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
  44. The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
  45. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
  46. The Year of the Flood, Margaret Attwood
  47. Her Fearful Symetry, Audrey Niffenegger
  48. Indignation, Phillip Roth
  49. American Pastoral, Phillip Roth
  50. Half the Sky, Nicholoas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
  51. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
  52. Giliead, Marilynne Robinson
  53. The Help, Kathryn Stockett