http://www.daveswhiteboard.com Interests, ideas, notions, tangents Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:33:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Karyn Romeis writes about her career frustrations, and gets both encouragement and advice from several people. I've felt similar frustration a time or two -- in no small part because I've tended to remain in a position longer than average. G. K. Chesterton said there's a great difference between a ... http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/380 I've been working on courses for people who want to become paralegals. I knew at the start that my direct experience with lawyers and the law was limited, but I didn't realize how much so. Take "the law," for example. I would have said "the law" means...well, laws. ... http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/378 My current project involves working with statutes and with case law. One of my project partners has built a learning assignment around a court case. Eric Turkewitz has the details (as do many others, including the Boston Globe), but this is the quick summary: Dr. Robert Lindeman was defending ... http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/375 I once heard DNA co-discoverer James Watson speaking at a lecture. Referring to some research, he said, "We thought we were being stochastic, but we were just guessing." I'd like to think that I'm integrative, but mostly I just happen across unassociated things. Like, for instance: Michael Feldstein at e-Literate ... http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/374 Language Log's post for Bastille Day, fittingly enough, was Dare to be bilingual.  Eric Bakovic has had a series of posts related to English-only, English-first, and the effort to make English the official language of the United States. In the outer fringes of vented spleen, Bakovic quotes someone's opinion that "all ... http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/373