Wishing Chair at the Giant’s Causeway, Antrim, Ireland. 1912. (via)

November 16th, 2009 | Category: photos | Leave a comment

Palestinian resistance fighters, Lebanon, late 1960s (via)

November 12th, 2009 | Category: photos, politics | Leave a comment

Students in M?rida (Yucat?n, Mexico) celebrate the Day of the Revolution.

November 11th, 2009 | Category: photos, politics | Comments (1)

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September 9th, 2009 | Category: photos, politics | Leave a comment

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.

September 1st, 2009 | Category: photos, politics | Leave a comment

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 to Kuala Lumpur, and [...]

August 4th, 2009 | Category: photos | Comments (1)

photo from Nepal, via Flickr

July 8th, 2009 | Category: photos, politics | Comments (6)

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):

July 2nd, 2009 | Category: linguistics, photos, politics | Comments (2)

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.

June 30th, 2009 | Category: photos, politics | Leave a comment