links for 2007-10-25

• Hrant Dink’s son goes to prison under article 301
  Insanity in Turkey.
  (tags: armenian)

links for 2007-10-20

• Every novel on Man Booker Prize shortlist to be available free for online readers
  This is pretty excellent. I'll still want the real book, of course. When I get a free minute (someday) I will read Enright's novel.
  (tags: books)

links for 2007-10-19

• The U.S. and Turkey: Honesty Is the Best Policy
  Samantha Power says it perfectly.
  (tags: armenian)

links for 2007-10-17

• The Sy Empire
  Stuff like this fascinates me. Amazingly, they forgive people who steal, but cut off those who marry non-Jews.
  (tags: religion)
• Anne Enright takes the Booker
  Sounds like my kind of book--I'll have to check it out. Good for her.
  (tags: irish)

Sox

Just found an autograph book of mine with a Boston Globe headline cut out from 1981 announcing the longest game played at Fenway. I was there, with my dad. Alongside it are my autographs from that night from Glenn Hoffman, Dave Stapleton, Bob Stanley and so on.

I wondered if it still held the record of the longest game and according to this page, it does:

The longest game ever played at Fenway began on 9/3/1981. It was suspended at 1:16 am at the end of 19 innings, according to the old curfew rule that an inning couldn't begin after 1 am. The game resumed the next day, and the Red Sox ended up losing to Seattle 8-7, in 20 innings. Jerry Remy had 6 hits, to tie the American League record.

links for 2007-10-14

• 73 and Loaded With Friends on Facebook
  For my 'is social networking good for society or something like that' paper.
  (tags: socialinformatics)
• Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks
  Another for the paper.
  (tags: socialinformatics)

links for 2007-10-12

• You Virtually Had to Be There
  Interesting article about staying in touch with your college kids virtually.
  (tags: socialinformatics)

links for 2007-10-11

• White House: Genocide resolution would hurt relations with key ally
  This part makes me sick: Nabi Sensoy, Turkey's ambassador to the United States, told CNN the resolution's passage would be a "very injurious move to the psyche of the Turkish people."
  (tags: armenian)

House Foreign Affairs Committee Adopts Armenian Genocide Resolution

I'm so proud of the folks who voted in favor of this resolution. I listened to the entire thing on my headphones as I worked today. I stayed at work and marked off the number of yes votes on a scrap of paper as they were read and it got so close at one point.

Chairman Lantos' opening remarks are worth reading and ANCA has a press release listing how each Representative voted.

links for 2007-10-07

• Real Hope in a Virtual World
  Fascinating and a good side effect of people having online identities.
  (tags: socialinformatics)

links for 2007-10-04

• Pupusas!
  Wow the La Pupusa Guanaca people have opened up a place very nearby. Exciting.
  (tags: food)

links for 2007-10-03

• The Jena Six Case
  Letters to the editor regarding Reed Walters' claims that he could not find a crime to charge the white students with. That did make me pause and I wondered how it could be true. It's not.
  (tags: jena6)
• Will's Thoughtstream: What if Brittanica had created their own wiki?
  Should read this for work.
  (tags: wiki)