Continuing on the Nazi theme established by the two previous posts, today we have Warren Kinsella’s Web of Hate
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
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Merging the Nazi theme from yesterday with the comic book theme from the previous post, today we have Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
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While browsing the support forums on SourceForge for Wikindx, I came across a thread on an Online-Bibliographie zur Comicforschung (Online Bibliography for Comics Research).
In fact, it’s not the only online bibliography of research into comic books. There are three more which are linked to from that site: ComicsResearch.org, comics research bibliography, and Sekundärliteratur zum Comic (German)… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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This post continues the series on “a life in books”.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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In this previous post, I had actually made use of a small plug-in I had written for WordPress, which creates a macro for pulling bibliographical information from Wikindx, which I use to manage my bibliography.
The plug-in is rather simple, but since a web search turned up nothing similar (which is kind of surprising), and someone might find it useful, I thought I’d post it here… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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This post was inspired by the post from two days ago on the flags of the world.
I’ve always considered Reza Shah Pahlavi’s 1935 decree requesting that the country formerly known as Persia be referred to as “Iran” by foreign governments with which it had diplomatic relations to be a mistake. Naturally, once governments began to refer to the country as Iran, their citizens followed suit. This change at once led to a severing in the Western consciousness of Iran from the Persian culture of classical antiquity, and also created a situation in which the name of the country can easily become confounded with that of its neighbour and recurrent rival, Iraq, a name which entered the mainstream vocabulary of Western languages only in 1932 with the founding of the Kingdom of Iraq in that year.
Actually, in Arabic and Persian, the names Iraq and Iran sound quite different, and they are not very similar to each other when written in the Perso-Arabic script… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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For my Ph.D. research, I had set up the Wikindx bibliography management system for use on my laptop to keep track of the papers that I had read or come across. Furthermore, I use it to store local copies of frequently accessed papers by attaching them as PDF files.
Because I’m using Jarnal to annotate these papers, I wanted to integrate the ability to launch Jarnal into Wikindx itself, and also to store the annotations in Wikindx along with the attached documents.
I wrote the Annotate With Jarnal plug-in module for Wikindx initially for my private use, so it’s not very polished. But it gets the job done… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
This post was inspired by the paragraph about the former flag of Hong Kong in yesterday’s post on the flags of the world.
Hong Kong island was actually ceded in perpetuity by the government of Qing China to the British crown in 1842 in the Treaty of Nanking… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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Update (Sept. 29, 2009): I got in touch with Kevin Lindsey, the author of the script discussed below for converting DigiMemo DHW files to SVG format. He’s put his code on github, and written a new blog post about it.
For taking notes physically on paper, I use an ACECAD DigiMemo L2 digital notepad (whom I have named Little Wooden Boy).
Because I use Linux primarily, I don’t use the Windows-based software provided by ACECAD. Instead, I use Jarnal, an open source note-taking application written in Java.
This poses a minor problem, as the DigiMemo products store their output in a proprietary ACECAD format called DHW… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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I’ve actually been writing these posts a few days ahead of time, but limiting my posting to once a day to space them out. It’s a coincidence that this particular post appears on 9/11, but given the world-changing nature of the event, it’s interesting to look at the flags of the world from 1977 and compare them to the flags of today — and also to think about what the flags of the world might look like in 2041, another thirty-two years from now.
Since the post mentions Iraq and Iran, and today is September 11, I want to point out that no connection has ever been found between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Iraq, despite the apparent belief of many people to the contrary. I also want to point out that Iran and Iraq are in fact two entirely separate and distinct countries, with different histories, languages, cultures, and religious and ethnic compositions — again, contrary to the apparent belief of many people.
This isn’t a book, but a sheet of stickers with flags of the world’s nations, circa 1977, which I’ve had since I was a child. I recently threw it out along with some outdated books… » [Expand post] [Permalink]