Category Archives: Natural Law

Finish my PhD in 13 months?

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

The University of Nebraska at Lincoln, not content with stealing Matt Jockers from Stanford, is hiring more Digital Humanities faculty. That’s pretty cool.

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A Map to Nowhere

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

The mayor of Salt Lake City recently took issue with his city being described as significantly smaller and less connected than London. There are many ways to gauge importance from a social and cultural sense, such as calculating the centrality … Continue reading →

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How the UVA Crisis Can Help Us Break Out of the Upgrade Path

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

This year’s eyeo festival focused not on beautiful information, or on amazing new visualization libraries, or data transformation techniques, but rather, as Megan Miller put it, on failure and slow data. That’s horrible, isn’t it? It’s wrong, or at least … Continue reading →

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CC-BY for Icons?!?!

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

I just submitted a few nouns to the Noun Project, which is the right thing to do considering I’m using a few of their nouns in a new project. When you submit your icons to NP, you have two options: … Continue reading →

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A Week’s Worth of Travel in the Roman World

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World has been up and running for a week now and the response has been simply incredible. While we all expected it to be well-received, especially among the particular scholarly community … Continue reading →

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The Curmudgeon Club

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

My post tying digital humanities to The New Aesthetic caused a bit of consternation, and forced me to take a closer look at the movement. Matthew Battles gives the best overview that I’ve read so far, and reminds me of … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 18, 2012 by Elijah Meeks | Comments Off

My Day of DH – Pernicious Collaboration

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

I took part in the Day of DH yesterday, though not as vigorously as I did last year. Here is the Day of Elijah Meeks, in case you’re really, really interested. The post of mine I thought the most valuable … Continue reading →

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A Year in Review

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

Images uploaded to this site, by month, using an automatic collage creator. January February March April May June July August September October November December

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TVTropes Pt 2: Trope (But Not Troper) Communities

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Part 1: The Weird Geometry of the Internet Part 3: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you’ll love Twilight: Breaking Dawn Example of Thematic Relationships I received quite a few comments about the last article, most of which I haven’t approved, … Continue reading →

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