It holds media of all types — text, photo, video, audio. I lay out media around a theme — here is a custom-designed page that presents video, audio, text about Chicago. Here’s another that uses some of the same elements, but it’s exhibit about wayfinding.

The exhibits can tour. You can use have some of my pieces to use in yours, but provenance (not scarcity!) is enforced.

Maybe you can comment on things. Maybe you can’t. I suppose you could suggest new pieces for my collection, but it’s my choice whether they appear right away or not, or if I even read your suggestions. Or maybe on this one exhibition we can all work together, because I’ve invited you.

Here’s what the museum looked like in its last revision, if you wanted to know.

Here’s everything in the highest resolution I’ve got.

The future digital humanities museum.

Sign my guestbook?

Philosophy of Sociology, SOC 508

Actually a pretty awesome course on the nature of research methods and the formation of discipline. Professor curates changingsociety.org, does interesting video interviews with top sociologists.

• Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences / Jon Elster
• Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory / Green & Shaprio
• Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences / Mahoney & Rueschemeyer
• Social Mechanisms / Hedström & Swedberg
• Department and Discipline / Abbott

UROP research

• The Rational Guide to Building SharePoint Web Parts / Darin Bishop. While you’d expect this to contain only the repeated phrase “danger — run”, it does not, so it fails to fulfill the promise implicit in its title. That, or it sets up some sort of paradox that will destroy us all.
• (two other books related books, whose titles will sour this post, but are central to the success of my project)

General Awesomeness

• The Media Lab / Stewart Brand
• Finally: A Pattern Language /Alexander et al, thanks to a well-timed Borders gift card.
• Imagined Communities / Anderson, my first real book that BookMooch allowed me to take.

Christmas Sociology

• Structural Holes / Burt, reviewed and recommended on Vacuum some time ago.
• Orality and Literacy / Ong, which, as the title suggests, links oral and literary cultures;
• Emergence / Steven Johnson, on emergence theory and group power;
• Turf Wars / Gabriella Gahlia Modan, on linguistics and the formation of conceptions of place in neighborhoods.

And, finally:

How to Marry the Man of Your Choice (imagine the o in choice is a gold band) / Margaret Kent. Required reading for anyone entering a serious relationship. Sample chapter available.

Russian Ark, for sure. Shot in the Hermitage in one single, uncut, 90-minute steadicam shot.
Lonsesome Dove (probably will end up watching this one alone, if at all). 1989 miniseries; 6 hours; abnormally compelling western.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy — Perhaps the dullest, yet still the best miniseries yet produced.

Also recommended: Ben Hur, Cleopatra.