From nakedcapitalism.com:
In six days, on January 18th, it’s the one year anniversary of the blackout of Wikipedia, and some have discussed celebrating it as Internet Freedom Day. Maybe we should call this Aaron Swartz Day, in honor of this heroic figure. While what happened that day was ...
So Apple released a new computer yesterday. It looks like something from some flying-car-personal-jetpack future. The interface is really slick and it's probably a dream to use. I'm sure a ton of people are going to get one, and it probably represents something as profound as the Apple ...
Or at least Jim Wallis of Sojourners magazine says so. He was interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show the other day and declared that...
"The dominance of the religious right over our politics is finally finished".
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One of the things I enjoy most about my commute is walking through the lobby of Union Station. It's a really great public space and worth walking out of my way.
Yesterday I got an extra treat: they still have the Christmas decorations up, so I snapped a couple ...
Heard today the sad news that Kansai Time Out is publishing its final issue this month. n my previous life as a JET Programme English teacher in Nara prefecture, I carried a copy with me almost at all times. KTO wrote about local history, off-the-beaten-path places to visit, and all ...
I've just finished my last piece of a Kit-Cat Pie, a culinary delicacy from the 1600s, which I heard about while reading the third book in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy. <!-- SUMMARY_END -->
The Baroque Cycle is set in the 1600s, at the dawn of modern science, finance, and ...
I'm cramming through Learning Perl again (last time was back in 1997) to get up to speed for a potential gig. After 13 years of Cold Fusion, Java, PHP, Python, and after hearing Randall Schwartz talk on FLOSS Weekly about how Perl looks like line noise, I have to ...
That's right, I've left all my groups, deleted all my photos, and I'm going to be deleting my Facebook account pretty soon. It doesn't mean I don't like you, it just means that I'm tired of Facebook and its (lack-of-)privacy policies. Plus I ...
I'm reading a couple articles that were mentioned in a Revolution in Jesusland posting about how young evangelical voters are not necessarily Republicans (thank God this is finally starting to happen!).
The ABC News article says that those interviewed for the story were at "a concert and a rally ...
Was just down at Las Galas in Little Tokyo, enjoying a chicken bowl and some free wifi, courtesy of Little Tokyo Unplugged. Would've written this posting from there, but my sister IM-ed me and we chatted about stuff while I ate. Just another example of what's cool about ...