It is an incredibly gorgeous day today, which is not helping me stay inside and focus on my work. I took some photos of the incredible scarlet California poppies which have sprung up between the Circles and the beach, but none of them came out quite right. So until I go back and try again, [...]
Wishing Chair at the Giant’s Causeway, Antrim, Ireland. 1912. (via)
Palestinian resistance fighters, Lebanon, late 1960s (via)
Students in M?rida (Yucat?n, Mexico) celebrate the Day of the Revolution.
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Me again. Two days in a row! Tomorrow? We’ll see. For today, a photo: (May Day, London, 2008, photo from flickr) And if you enjoy that, please to be visiting the African Activist Archive. Amazing collection of photos and posters and so forth.
Some photos from our trip to Asia (so far!). We came to Singapore to present a paper at a subconference of ACL, the major computational linguistics conference. Some things we’ve seen on the way: Sky over Guangzhou Customs form in Singapore Palm forests, on our bus ride through Malaysia this afternoon. We rode from Singapore [...]
photo from Nepal, via Flickr
Here’s an image I just made for this morning’s lecture on writing systems of the world (and specifically why we know so little about the Mayan writing system):
As long as it’s still June (and even when it’s not!), check out these amazing photos by Diana Davies from the early days of the Gay Liberation movement in New York. Lots of lovely color photos.
