Dean Jim Chen, over at MoneyLaw's hall of doom headquarter's, has responded to my post about tenure and Pat Burrell. (So has Michael Heise, at ELS). Jim gently critiques me for offering an overly simplistic view of MoneyLaw's posture toward tenure. As he points out, tenure is "academia's third rail,...

RCRD LBL is a music blog. Or a label. Or a webcaster. Hard to say exactly, but those are the times we live in. Here’s how they explain themselves to advertisers: Launched in November of 2007, RCRD LBL is an online record label releasing exclusive and completely free music from emerging and est...

When Curtis James says he performs as part of The People’s Party - he’s not joking. It’s quite the group. The band includes: Curtis James on guitar/vocals, Tony Glaser on bass/vocals, David Garner keyboards/vocals, Orlando Boyd on drums, Will Volume on electric violin/guitar, Justi...

Minerals are essential for your health and nutrition. Minerals are need for the proper composition of body fluids, the formation of blood and bones, maintaining healthy nerve function, and minerals also function as coenzymes, which enable the body to build and feed cells.They are also partly respons...

Hey guys! I had a very good time at CHA! I got to spend time with my girl Vee , met blog sistas, made new friends and saw some cool new scrap stuff that will be in stores soon. So much to tell and like no way to get it all in. Here are some pics of our time in Chicago. Flat Joscie had a good ol' tim...

You don't have to venture far from home to find eco-friendly places to eat, shop, and play. Here are several dozen of our favorite spots around the United States. If we've missed something in or around your town, let us know.  ALABAMA Highlands Bar & Grill American South meets the S...

Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks has been asking a number of interesting questions over the last six months or so, starting with the question of whether an RSS feed is worth a buck. Today, in a continuance of this professional blogger introspective, he asks what you’re doing to put food on h...

To pimp its sugary, 200-calorie iced coffees, fast food giant McDonald's offered to pay some local TV newscasts for product placement. And of course the newscasts went for it, since local TV journalism is where ethical standards go to die. Meredith Corporation is putting the drinks in front of ancho...

: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comSAN FRANCISCO – More than 100 zine-makers packed the County Fair building in Golden Gate Park over the weekend to celebrate San Francisco's annual Zine Festival. The two-day conference featured a wide variety of DIY arts and crafts, zines, comics and a gypsy-like atmos...

When I walked away from my nice and steady nine to five desk job in March, a lot of people asked for my reflections on it, and I provided my thoughts two weeks after quitting, which were almost entirely positive. Naturally, many of those readers wanted me to return to the topic in a few months to se...