Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Links for Thinking

* A computer analysis of the Shakespeare authorship question. (ht)

* Clayton recently had a paper for a conference simultaneously rejected and accepted. Fortunately, as you might expect, it was really accepted.

* Sudy at "A Womyn's Ecdysis" has an interesting argument that feminists should favor the concept 'kyriarchy' over the concept 'patriarchy' in analysis of oppression.

* A meme for teachers went around a while ago, the 'Passion Quilt'. If you haven't browsed some of the entries for it, you should. There are metaphorical entries, literal entries, some quite clever, many quite thought-provoking.

* Mark Chu-Carroll has been doing some posts on zero-sum games:
Zero Sum Games
Simple Games, Utility Functions, and Saddle Points
Iterated Zero-Sum Games

* The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is a treasure-trove of information about crime and punishment in England, 1674-1913. (ht) They've recently added the Ordinary's Accounts, which are especially interesting.

* Turkel's book, The Programming Historian, online. This looks like a great resource for scholarly online work; I'll be perusing it. (ht: EMN, with additional resources)

* (Speaking of historians, I'm looking for good resources -- especially books, but other resources will do -- on archive theory, if anyone has any recommendations.)

* Illuminating Lives, by Beth Randall (a series of biographical sketches of "various people whose lives illuminate some aspect of the religious quest")

* The Gifford Lectures Online. I've linked to it before, but it was still in a pretty primitive state at the time. It has come along nicely. Almost 120 years of arguably the most prestigious philosophical lectureship in the world, much of which is online, searchable, and almost all of which is well worth browsing.

UPDATES:

* Stern & Jones, The Coherence of Natural Inalienable Rights (PDF)