• Eszter Hargittai on “Chicago Tonight”
  interview with me on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight on Wed Nov 21st
  (tags: video hargittai facebook myspace research chicagotonight)
• A Soviet Poster A Day
  neat
  (tags: graphics posters history politics propaganda)
• Here Comes Another Bubble – The Richter Scales
  music video about Internet bubble 2.0
  (tags: video funny)

I realize that some of the references in this video require a fairly intimate knowledge of the Silicon Valley scene, but not all so perhaps this will add a bit of amusement to your day regardless of your geek quotient.

I was in Trier, Germany last week, famous for.. among other things, being the birth place of Marx.

I found the store in the Karl Marx Museum filled with Marx merchandise amusing:

The “opium of the people” quote was only available on a magnet in German, not in English (other quotes were available in English), I’m assuming a conscious choice based on potential interest.

I couldn’t resist getting a copy of the poster that has the entire Communist Manifesto written on it with an image of Marx and Engels coming through from the text thanks to manipulation of the formatting.

I also got a postcard with a cartoon of Marx and the following quote: “Tut mir leid Jungs! War halt nur so ‘ne Idee for mir…”, which Babelfish completely butchers in its translation so I’ll try, but feel free to correct me: “Sorry kids! ‘Twas just an idea I had.”

Boarding a plane to Budapest later in the day added a twist to all this for me. While I can see friends and colleagues in the U.S. understanding why I would’ve picked up those items, I don’t think too many people in the town where I grew up would get why I’d want anything with Marx on my walls.

• Flight Delay Information – Air Traffic Control System Command Center
  (tags: flights reference travel)
• The List Universe
  top 10/25/etc lists
  (tags: top10 reference)

• Bumper stickernomics
  fun post about a very stupid political bumper sticker
  (tags: funny politics usa “bumper stickers”)
• UK Information Commissioner’s Office for young people
  (tags: sns uk users security privacy)
• Survey of Identity Theft in the U.S.
  (tags: users security idtheft report surveys)
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
  (MIT Press) – all papers will be available for free on the Web site starting December 12, 2007
  (tags: research article papers macarthur youth users)