There hasn’t been an Around the Web Digest since the Savage Minds home site went down and we had to set up its temporary digs here. That means we’re over due for a round-up of February and March! You can receive (semi-)daily links via our twitter accnt @savageminds or by liking our Facebook page. If you’ve seen something around the web that you’d like to share with the Savage Minds community, mention us in a tweet with the link. You can also email me at [mdthomps@odu.edu].

Here’s a sample of what we’ve been reading. To the links!

February

• The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World. An online exhibition from the NYPL.  /KF
• Nostalgic Americana of Ram truck Superbowl commercial ignores the immigrant face of farming today. //MT
• Lakota kids go to Afghanistan, make skateboards. Awesomeness ensues.  //MT
• “We ask that you not call us professor”  /KF
• Anthropologist Michele Rivkin-Fish likens N. Carolina gov. to Soviets on higher ed & jobs  //MT
• “No more half-measures!” A call for Open Access and rapid change in the AAA’s publication portfolio. //MT
• “Register & Read” program lets you freely view, but not download, 3 JSTOR articles every 2 weeks.  //MT
• Honoring natural selection’s most baffling creations. Go home, evolution, you are drunk. /KF
• “I want to aid in spreading the message [that cultural anthropology] should be extirpated from the academy”  /KF
• “After reviewing the… data, I’m even more surprised …at how Diamond treats the ethnographic record”  /KF
• If @bfister is involved with this journal than it will rock. – Rx
• Taíno descendants nurture their indigenous roots.  //MT
• Diamond’s problem [is] that he has realized that the things he is an expert in are boring…  /KF
• It certainly helps to have more money and less teaching, but there are other factors in play  /via @kmlawson /KF
• “eighteenth century thinkers remained highly resistant to the idea of race”  by @kenanmalik /KF
• Soldier Exposures And Technical Publics  /KF
• American melodrama: WWE’s latest bad-guy wrestler is a parody of the Tea Party//MT
• Kansas bans Sharia law in symbolic move. Iranians getting divorced in Kansas have their lives complicated. //MT
• Librarians in Timbuktu smuggle hard drives with digital backups of ancient manuscripts out of the city. //MT
• Retirement home for elderly transgendered persons opens in Indonesia. //MT
• MOOC’s will make open access publishing mandatory. //MT via @johnhawks
• (R) senator blasts Chuck Hagel: “Marx not only read Hagel, but took his inspiration from him!” //MT
• On the advantages of being an asshole… and whether there’s something we can do about that. //MT via @AnnaAnthro
• Sahlins, Chagnon, Incompetent Science, the new military anthropology, and more: David Price in Counterpunch
• Performance enhancing drugs for writers. Which do you imbibe? //MT
• Men are more likely to drop out of college because the gender gap in pay softens the penalty for doing so.  //MT
• On the 40th anniversary of Wounded Knee, a photographer remembers. //MT

March

• Corporate law student reflects on value of anthro training, what anthros can teach economists.//MT via @anthroworks
• A must read from Jon Marks. Must. Read. Honest -Rx
• Native American social worker on Reddit’s AMA. //MT
• Petition: Save Visual Anthropology (VCS) at the University of Tromsø /KF
• The promise and peril of Big Data. //MT
• Corrections re AAA and Chagnon: March 6, 2013  /KF
• A lovely, bittersweet piece on hiring one’s replacement  -Rx
• Cultural Anthropology will go Open Access in 2014! /KF
• Need to learn about open access or open source? Try the School of Open!   -Rx
• Interview with @savageminds’ @M4ttTh0mps0n about adjuncting and teaching anthropology [Video]  /KF
• “Makers should be seen as the historical result of the negation of the workers’ movement.” //MT
• RI town’s economy rises and falls to the rhythm of food stamp allotments.  //MT
• Dissertaton Review: reviews of recent dissertations on cool topics. Great project to follow and support imho  -Rx
• Sente 6.6.0 Final Public Preview  via @SenteApp /KF
• The Problematics of the Fake Harlem Shake  /by @SezinKoehler: for @SocImages /KF
• An epidemic of anthropological proportions: the magic of penis theft and the traffic of stolen genitals.  //MT
• SCOTUS verdict against Wiley on copyright violation claims of importing cheap foreign printed texts. //MT
• Scholarly publishing co-op: neither OA nor corporate for-profit. Can this succeed where acdm presses havnt?  //MT
• So is the Onion moving into marketing teacher’s aids now, or what? //MT
• The Global Women Wikipedia Write-In: April 26, 2013, 1-3pm EST  /via @dhpoco /KF
• Vale Chinua Achebe  -Rx
• “We’re all unhappy – apparently that’s what equality looks like”  -Rx
• Entire board of Journal of Library Admin resigns in protest of Taylor & Francis opposition to OA  /v @ncecire /KF
• Librarian moonlights as professional wrestler. Could this be a growth field for underemployed anthros? //MT
• Private sector job growth for anthropologists. /KF
• Agamben Toys: Apposite Baubles For The State Of Exception /via Teri /KF
• “How Google auto-complete search forms perpetuate racist stereotypes” -Rx
• Two more links of Sahlins’s resignation from NAS at Dissent and American Conservative  -Rx