Today is the anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s (1922-69) birth, Charlie Parker’s (1921-55) death, and Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman’s wedding (1969).

Sociologists launch online journal to study the mundane: ‘”The idea is to sort of step back from everything that we take for granted and say, `What’s really going on here, anyway?”‘ said William Roy of the

University of California, Los Angeles. “A fish is the last creature to ever notice water.” (…)

The idea sprang from a 1998 article published in the journal Sociological Theory. Wayne Brekhus of the University of Missouri complained that there were

many journals devoted to extreme behavior but nothing concentrating on the mundane. (…) Brekhus’ half-joking call for a journal to study the mundane caught the attention of Schaffer and Orleans. They sent out e-mail notices six months ago

requesting papers and launched the Web site, www.mundanebehavior.org .

They received a handful of e-mails wondering if it was a hoax. They also got three times as many submissions as they could use for the debut issue.’ The table of contents from the first issue includes:

Today is the anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s (1922-69) birth, Charlie Parker’s (1921-55) death, and Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman’s wedding (1969).

I’m sure everybody knows by now about the first binding web election, sort of.

Sociologists launch online journal to study the mundane: ‘”The idea is to sort of step back from everything that we take for granted and say, `What’s really going on here, anyway?”‘ said William Roy of the

University of California, Los Angeles. “A fish is the last creature to ever notice water.” (…)

The idea sprang from a 1998 article published in the journal Sociological Theory. Wayne Brekhus of the University of Missouri complained that there were

many journals devoted to extreme behavior but nothing concentrating on the mundane. (…) Brekhus’ half-joking call for a journal to study the mundane caught the attention of Schaffer and Orleans. They sent out e-mail notices six months ago

requesting papers and launched the Web site, www.mundanebehavior.org .

They received a handful of e-mails wondering if it was a hoax. They also got three times as many submissions as they could use for the debut issue.’ The table of contents from the first issue includes:

I’m sure everybody knows by now about the first binding web election, sort of.