Crazyfinger writes to inform us all of a blogpost contest. The prize is a copy of Stephen Miller’s new book “Conversation: A History of a Declining Art”. Check it out.
[My apologies to Crazyfinger for the delay in carrying this announcement. Due to time constraints, I was unable to get to updating the blog.]

Brad DeLong over at UC Berkeley writes a mean blog, Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal, from his office at Evans Hall with a view of the campus and the Golden Gate Bridge off to the west. He considers the academic enviroment he lives in to be a paradise.