Glad to see that my title, “The Ethnographer’s M.O.,” doesn’t seem to have been used before.

RemoteTap is a nice app to control and use a Mac OS X desktop from your iPhone. bit.ly/dm8IxN

“Modernity does not dare crush me!!” bit.ly/dCZZhk /via sleggat

Quaker brand essence of chicken at 7-11. moby.to/d4wtaq

So my mechanic wouldn’t accept payment for a house call because the problem was too easy to fix⁉ I am ruined for any other mechanic…

Shashi Tharoor forced to resign⁉ nyti.ms/dAKAU8

Very interesting. It seems that Wittgenstein was heavily influenced by Gramsci’s prison writings - via his conversations with P. Sraffa.

Facebook in Taiwan grew from 400k users in June 2009 to 6.2million now bit.ly/aodhzH /via niubi

It never was “the rise of the West.” From the beginning it was “The Rise of the Rich.” bit.ly/cXd6El Amazon: amzn.to/amMD9q

Chart showing (tiny) portion of federal budget spent on funding research. bit.ly/ciM2qr /via kagillogly