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Newspapers
For reasons I haven’t yet determined, I started getting the newspaper 2 weeks ago, and it has been arriving every morning on my front door step. From there, it has been moved to the woodpile. S...
Jack Palance
Jack Palance has died at the age of 87. In addition to his better known stuff, he was in a lot of cowboy movies in the golden days of the cowboys and indians wild west movies and spaghetti wester...
Voting
I voted this morning. The line was about the same length as other years, but took probably 4 times as long. The voting machines were *significantly* harder to use than those we’ve had in previo...
NPR and Open Source
Wow. The editor of Radio Open Source responded to my post about his show. That’s very cool. And his explanation of the name actually makes a lot of sense to me. I’ve often asked the question ...
NYT
I’m in the New York Times!
That’s not what he said
I’ve heard some rather inflamatory stuff about the pope lately, but, in the spirit of Slashdot, it’s important to actually read the article. That’s not what he said. For those who don’t w...
lilo
As many of you may have already heard, Rob Levin (lilo), the head admin of the Freenode IRC network, was killed by a hit-and-run driver while he was riding his bike today. Although I had spoken w...
Homer Combs
Homer Combs was a good and kind man, who cared deeply about his family, and those of his employees. He always asked me how my little girl was doing, and often reminded me that she was far more im...
Security Theater
Not to be revolutionary or anything, but as I prepare to board a plane, this makes interesting reading. (Via my sister.)
incommunicado no comment to make
Starting Tuesday evening, I will be incommunicado for a week, or as long as I can stand to be offline. I’ll be going way out into the woods, with no electricity, no internet, and probably out o...