“Greg Restall”:http://consequently.org/news/2004/03/18/publishing_a_book/index.html on why it’s a good idea to give away your books. (And he’s entirely right to use shudder quotes when using the word ‘book’ about my stalled vagueness project.)

“Brian Leiter”:http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000971.html#000971 reports that Jason Stanley has moved to Rutgers, and asks whether this makes Rutgers the best school in philosophy of language. Er, yes. But there are some scholarly differences between some of the philosophers of language there that should make for some interesting tea-room discussions.

“Claire”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/anggarrgoon/2004/03/20#a55 mocks some intelligence officials for their inability to tell Uzbek from Chechen. She should be careful – this is just why people are talking about “re-instating the draft”:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03/13/MNG905K1BC1.DTL.

Just for kicks, here are pictures of the kinds of planes that fly out of Ithaca.

bq. !http://www.itn.net/gif/itn/airplanes/D38/d38.gif!

bq. !http://www.itn.net/gif/itn/airplanes/DH8/dh8.jpg!

I have a not entirely rational dislike of small planes. Next month when I’m going to Pullman, WA I’m flying to Seattle and driving the last five hours to hopping around in one of these things. (And to save a few hundred dollars and even I think a little travel time.) The top picture looks WWII era. But I’ll guess I’ll get used to them.