Comments on: Things that keep me up at night: academics' websites http://www.thisisthegreenroom.com/2009/things-that-keep-me-up-at-night-academics-websites/ don’t panic Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:33:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: J http://www.thisisthegreenroom.com/2009/things-that-keep-me-up-at-night-academics-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-1182 J Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:02:53 +0000 http://www.thisisthegreenroom.com/?p=1942#comment-1182 Thanks, Andrew -- I've gone and put my foot in my mouth again. I'm glad, at least, that I'm not the first to feel this way about Taleb's site, though to be honest I was so shocked I didn't even make it to the bottom of the page. Corrected above! Thanks, Andrew -- I've gone and put my foot in my mouth again. I'm glad, at least, that I'm not the first to feel this way about Taleb's site, though to be honest I was so shocked I didn't even make it to the bottom of the page.

Corrected above!

]]> By: Andrew Bein http://www.thisisthegreenroom.com/2009/things-that-keep-me-up-at-night-academics-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-1181 Andrew Bein Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:15:52 +0000 http://www.thisisthegreenroom.com/?p=1942#comment-1181 In defense of Taleb (although not any other academic's website), the "upside down" image is actually a right-side-up reproduction of the cover of a recent Sunday Times Magazine (London) with the headline (uniquely appropriate for upside down text): "Expect the Unexpected." Not that suggestions to him have not clearly been made previously, give the last line of text on his site: "...please please refrain from offering to “improve” my web site." In defense of Taleb (although not any other academic's website), the "upside down" image is actually a right-side-up reproduction of the cover of a recent Sunday Times Magazine (London) with the headline (uniquely appropriate for upside down text): "Expect the Unexpected."

Not that suggestions to him have not clearly been made previously, give the last line of text on his site: "...please please refrain from offering to “improve” my web site."

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