I want to read Nilly's diss. And not just because she's Nilly.

This is just infuriating (it involves the death of a child, so I'll whitefont for those who don't want to be infuriated):

Baltimore police have obtained warrants charging four more members of what authorities call a religious cult in the death of 2-year-old Javon Thompson, whose body was found in May in a suitcase in Philadelphia. The warrants bring the number of people charged in the boy's death to five.

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Police say the five suspects belonged to a small group of adults and children who operated for a time in East and West Baltimore. Police allege that the victim's mother, Ria Ramkissoon, 21, the first to be charged with murder, and others neglected Javon and allowed the boy to starve to death because they thought he was a demon for not saying amen after he was fed, according to police charging documents.

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Also, due to you, I got on that facebook thing and was basically ignoring it. And one of my fellow college Saras just found me!

See, it's fun!

A journey through the world an hour at a time. Half an hour later in Newfoundland.

Bwah!

Thanks, Gadget_Girl! Also, good luck with testing your theory.

I want to read Nilly's diss

"Linked" is really good.

However, actually - I was wondering if it won't be too much, to post the abstract (um, once it's finished, of course, so only tomorrow) here, and ask for the most severe strict English editing possible (seeing as that's the first thing being read, and in some cases, the only one).

See, it's fun!

Actually, it's more "ok, how the fuck's this work?" Not that it stops me, but I've got a primal resistance thing happening.

Not too much at all, Nilly. And we won't even put any porn in. Most of us.

Thanks, Nilly. My students love it when I come "dressed" for work. (most are also BIG Jilli fans as well)

Absolutely, Nilly.

Thanks, you guys! I'll definitely do it then, tomorrow.

Oh, and speaking of facebook, they even have this application (I hope I linked right), which draws a graph of the connections between the friends of a certain user, and therefore creates a network with at least some of the characteristics we're talking about.

And facebook's application of "find people who are friends of your friends, because there's a high chance you know them yourself" - it has the same logic we're talking about, too.

How I wish I could put my hands on their data (they're not willing to share it, though - another student already asked). They have just the kind of network I'm simulating and studying from a theoretical point of view. It could be fascinated to check an actual network, with its structure and its development and the various sorts of dynamics that keep go on there.

And still, the one thing I like best about facebook, after finding old friends I was sorry I lost tough with, is the jigsaw puzzle application. One tracked minded me.