I have filed a civil suit against Berkeley Town House Cooperative Corporation and 8 individual defendants. The case has produced some public records.
[Full text]Let’s perpetrate peace
April 24th, 2012If you dislike verbs that have both cognitive denotations and normative connotations, what can you do about them? One answer: resist by misusing them.
[Full text]Republican survey research methodology
April 14th, 2012The principles underlying the methods used by the National Republican Committee in some of its opinion surveying are unclear.
[Full text]Cooperative housing news
March 14th, 2012News about cooperative housing in the East Bay and the world. There’s a push to revive cooperatives as a major economic force.
[Full text]Author reading at Berkeley Town House
March 10th, 2012One of Berkeley Town House’s residents will read from (and sign) her newly published book “Devil’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step” at BTH on 24 March.
[Full text]PanLex joins Long Now Foundation
February 27th, 2012The Long Now Foundation has become the sponsor of the PanLex project, which is creating the world’s most multilingual collection of translations among words.
[Full text]Google Translate hits 64 with Esperanto
February 25th, 2012Esperanto is the 64th Google Translate language, added this week. Seems to work better than French, German, or Russian.
[Full text]HOA, Show Me Your Stuff
February 11th, 2012Here’s a list of 14 things that I would ask for from a homeowner’s association if I were considering buying into it—beyond what the standard purchase offer requires.
[Full text]Secret Baining memoir revealed
November 2nd, 2011I point to a hitherto concealed memoir about the anthropologically frustrating Baining people.
[Full text]Do-It-Yourself Seismic Screening
October 20th, 2011No progress is detectable toward the general availability of tools for do-it-yourself seismic screening of existing buildings, since I wrote about this in May 2010.
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