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Watching Super Size Me. (Rick, Naperville’s schools are in the film.) On a related note, I saw an advertisement at the mall food court tonight: America ne...

Every now and then, Bill Davidsen and I exchange beers we think the other might like. So the other day, he dropped off a Weyerbacher AutumnFest and an Otter Cre...

If you get tired of all the beautiful people on HotOrNot, Matt Mullenweg points out Rate My Network Diagram.

Marketplace links to a Reuters story on a group of deaf children in Nicaragua who have invented their own sign language. The living laboratory of up to 1,000 ch...

WSHU reported that an intoxicated councilwoman in Connecticut hit a light pole after swerving to avoid a deer. She’s not a regular drinker; she’s a ...

Sometimes I catch Marketplace, which plays on WSHU at 18:30 weekdays, on my drive home. The other day they interviewed Richard Florida about whether post-9/11 p...

I have more than a couple of muscles I don’t use on a regular basis. I’m finding a lot of them now that I’m fencing again, at the park down th...

This morning we made changes to the SNET personal web pages to reduce the complexity of our various PWP environments. home.nvbell.net home.pacbell.net home.swbe...

The Mozilla Foundation released a security update for Firefox on October 1, 2004. This fix is small, installs painlessly, and does not require you to restart yo...

Microsoft reorganizes their websites every now and then. The recent change to TechNet has vastly improved the URIs and UI both. But I think someone involved wit...

In a story on Apple iBooks being provided for students in Putnam Valley, the Journal News writes Zachary Maucieri, a seventh-grader, said he doesn’t like ...

The killer feature in the forthcoming Mozillas: recording the referrers in the history log.

OK, now I’m going to pick a nit. Schwartz says, regarding IBM, Finally, the ‘P’ in Power5 stands for Proprietary. You can’t claim your c...

I’m finding that Jonathan Schwartz’s journal provides an interesting perspective on Sun and this industry. Regarding HP, he writes: But that said, I...

The Free Software Foundation sent me a copy of Lawrence Lessig‘s Free Culture. It looks like it will be fun read. Just the sort of thing to get me in the ...

What do you mean Linux is difficult?

On my Windows desk, I’m using Picasa to look at the pictures from the new camera. It compares quite favorably to iPhoto, and even beats it in some respect...

There’s an amusing political story in today’s paper, in among the depressing stuff. The county board of elections has removed two candidates from th...

The Political State Report reports that there is an amendment on the ballot in Colorado to address allocation of that state’s electors. I’m still no...