Crazy But Able

… for zippotricks.com Seems that they’ve been shut down by people afraid that kids might play with fire! Maybe people need to spend more time watching their kids instead of leading stupid crusades.
Sigh. This was one of my favorite sites, EVER. They ought to resurrect it as a pay must-be-18 or […]

Okay, I just gave my friend Heather Brown a posting account. I knew Heather in high school; she just moved out to San Diego, California with her husband Devin (who I also knew in high school). Heather is the person I go to for “on the scene” California recall news. (”It’s so […]

As promised.

Me and Jello Biafra decided to start up a series of free internet classes on how to publish weblogs and create great webpages.
While we were coming up with the class list and preparing lecture notes and things like that, Peggy came up to me, smiled, and made an incredibly complicated gesture+facial expression which meant “My […]

I tend to open links in new windows and then forget to close all of the browser windows. When I go through and mop up, I usually find interesting things. Some interesting things I found since the last Linkage post:

Ten Quotable Moments: Challenges and Responses for UI Designers. Remember what I said […]

Don’t miss this interview with Bernard Lietaer about alternative currencies [via Gimboland]:

RD: You mean, we need to be aware of how money works?
BL: Let me ask you this. Have you taken an inventory of the number of days you spend in life getting ready to make money? And when you have money, to manage […]

Steven Den Beste has a couple of fascinating blog entries about the power grid and power generation issues. From the first entry:

But there’s a critical difference between electricity and any other product we distribute widely: there’s no practical way to store electrical energy in adequate quantities.
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There are physical laws involved in electrical power systems […]

I changed the time zone difference in Wordpress so that comments and post times should start showing up right. It’s not a retroactive change, so all of the old stuff will still have times relative to GMT. I posted a couple things an hour ago, but now they’re future dated as far as […]

Just got back from Lee and Kim’s wedding. Pictures to follow. (Eventually.)

Okay, so here’s a post for the Lileks fans out there. If you haven’t heard of him, James Lileks is a local Star Tribune humor/commentary columnist, frequently both at the same time. Almost everyone around here has heard of and/or read his regular column in the Strib, the Backfence. “Oh, the fence […]