conservative backlash: nc state legislature considering bill (S1139) to “correct” liberal bias in NC’s universities (thanks ryan!) #
me and emma tonight i visited cousin chris, his wife fran, and their brand new baby, emma. we talked about wikipedia, we ate tasty japanese takeout, we held the baby. but you don’t want to read about it, do you?…
emma and justin chris and fran said that was one of emma’s first smiles.
i worry that, contrary to popular belief, the computer actually inhibits flow. maybe it’s not the computer per se, but its capacity to offer almost limitless distraction, exacerbated by my desire for the greatest amount of stimulation with the least…
i’m very picky about the books i read, probably because each book requires so much time and mental investment. i like the books i read to be connected with my current interests or life. reading books is not entertainment or…
5 years ago this month, i answered an email that came across a listserv i was on as a part of my residential computing consultant job. i wish i still had it. a project at the carolina population center was…
Inspiration I got the following comment on a previous post: I love your blog design a lot. I especially *LOVE* your MONTHCHUNKS archives. (It’s tiny, clean and stylish!) Is it possible to post a tutorial on how to achieve that…
arrived in new orleans tonight around 7pm or so. this has got to be one of my favorite places on earth. how i landed a job that sent me here more times than i can remember i don’t know. and…
but not in a bad way. in a full way. lunch today was at lemongrass, a restaurant jane and i went to last may where everything (it seemed) that she ordered beat what i ordered. welcome to the high stakes…
flew back from new orleans early this morning, getting into chapel hill around noon—just in time for the annual springtime apple chill street festival. a truly strange concoction of fair food, crafts, and motorcycles (predominantly of the crotch rocket variety)…
what i find interesting about blogging is how readily people put their personal lives out for anyone to read. not only is it a terrific end-run around the orwellian panopticon, but it also makes me wonder what effect on people…
just a quick note, i’m in sebastopol, got internet access at o’reilly because the “free wifi in all rooms” at the holiday inn is currently down. *grumble* i’m told a new router was supposed to be arriving this morning. (update:…
walking around behind analy high school i caught one of the less obstructed views of the mountains
so the important news is, on thursday morning i signed a lease for the apartment in santa rosa. it’s on the second floor, in the middle, 1 bedroom, kitchen with all the appliances, dining area, living room, closet with washer/dryer.…
the mountains from sebastopol after some rain one of many metal sculptures along florence avenue in sebastopol o’reilly media’s many-windowed headquarters an art deco barnes and noble in downtown santa rosa burgers from the in and out at rohnert park…
the sun is setting in front of me. i’ve taken down the blinds i had put up to soften the light in my office. i’ve boxed up the pottery and travel doo dads that found their way here. i’ve sorted…
the impetus being my impeding move across the country and my desire to be posting from the road (when able). for those who forget, i’ve been hosting justinsomnia.org at home since last july, which would be impossible once my stuff…
conservative backlash: nc state legislature considering bill (S1139) to “correct” liberal bias in NC’s universities (thanks ryan!) #
april fools? allizom new name of mozilla suite #
wikipedia article of the day: Family: Kinship terminology #
i have to say i concur: I loathe April Fool’s Day. For an information junkie like me, it’s the day when the world conspires to put sugar in your gas tank. #
bring the pain: lautenberg lays the smackdown on delay #
yeah, this is funny: WATER DISCOVERED ON MARS! #
cool: hybrid hacking #
sweet spot? Netflix now has a $9/month 1-at-a-time plan #
we were rootin’ from philly! ncaa finals, here we come! #
wikipedia article of the day: Wachovia, North Carolina was the first Moravian settlement in North Carolina #
go heels! “He was just killing them,” Felton said. “Why wouldn’t I give it to him? Everybody (on the Carolina bench) was screaming, ‘Get the ball inside to Sean.’ I mean, it was the right thing to do.” #
hi-larious! Steve, Don’t Eat It! on Cuitlacoche (aka corn smut) #
hmm, cool: simple english wikipedia, a free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading #
i concur: request for simple API access to wikipedia database #
wow! Two hundred kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, in a small village called Jukkasjärvi, is a hotel made entirely from ice and snow! #
holy crap! Google Satellite! i was actually flipping between terraserver and google maps before the game last night. THIS IS AWESOME! (thanks jackson!) #
how did i ever miss this? Uncrustables #
hehe: Design without Reach #
someone at Rising Slowly – The UK Weather Blog appreciates the photo i took of kilimanjaro #
webb’s got a blog: Daily Poop #
youch! tearing paul graham a new one #
photo of the day: McDonald’s suckling ad (this just keeps freaking me out) #
a few of me in there: carlie’s photos of the dance party at hell last night (i think meg gets best picture honors) #
meg’s pictures of the post-ncaa madness (even though i got SO sick that night after drinking two of those–plus some beers beforehand–this is probably my fav) #
to read: Democratizing Innovation #
captivating: Confessions of an EBay opium addict #
on my radar: Ubuntu Linux #
worth a read: The Man Date (thanks jackie!) #
the internet FUCK YEAH! slavery, FUCK YEAH! america we stand as one – fuckyeah remix #
i like this sam ruby guy: RS: Radical Simplification (though i find it weird that he works for ibm) #
makes me think of a certain duck in a certain commerical: AFLAX #
and the wtf of the day goes to… weekinreview (courtesy of matt haughey) i’m kind of surprised the thing isn’t an imagemap. #
props from the real paul jones: Justinsomnia to Sebastopol #
very necessary wordpress plugin: Time Zone (fixes daylight savings time offset problem) #
excellent: the peacekeeper #
not only is tom delay EVIL, but his website has some of the WORST, most unreadable graphics i’ve ever seen: exhibit a, exhibit b, exhibit c, exhibit d, exhibit e, exhibit f, and exhibit g #
cool, i guess: Idaho House Resolution #29: Stating findings of the Legislature and commending Jared and Jerusha Hess and the City of Preston for the production of the movie “Napoleon Dynamite.” #
remix culture: an italian blogger uses the silhouette of a man walking from one of my favorite photos in his blog’s banner image—and totally gives me credit. #
i needs to get me one of these merch shirts before leaving cakalak del norte #
Vel has a posse i was wondering what that was all about, thanks kristina #
honestly, why isn’t he a democrat? “By the way, when Bill Clinton was president, we, effectively, in the Judiciary Committee blocked a number of his nominees,” Mr. McCain said. #
on the front lines of the culture war: Tennessee state senator, Jeff Miller, a Republican, the sponsor of a state constitutional amendment aimed at “solemnizing the relationship of one man and one woman,” is accused in a divorce case of cheating on his wife. #
$999: Dell 24-inch Wide Aspect Flat Panel LCD Monitor (via matt haughey) #
trying: Konfabulator #
on life drawing: Only a few years ago, the idea of artists gathering to paint from a model would have seemed impossibly old-fashioned and hokey – and if the model was female and nude, sexist to boot. (who knew? i thought that was art.) #
i kind of wished macromedia would have continued as a competitor: Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. #
i agree: Yes, XMLHttpRequest has been around for years, and ajax is just a pretty term for DHTML and javascript, but the beauty of the term ajax is that we now have an easy way to sell the technology. #
senator santorum develops a fetish for preemies and the rest of us have to suffer #
i’m too lazy to look this up, but the only question i have is, “why’d joe chose benedict to be his gang name?” #
“For the love of God, people, that’s not going to happen,” Cadenhead said. “I will be running any plans I have for this domain by my own Catholic doctrinal enforcer, my never-miss-a-Sunday grandmother Rita.” #
tim, the future is already here: I see a future in which, when you want to talk about anything worth talking about, you link either to its URI, or its Wikipedia entry, or both. #
the best thing EVAR: my boss, whom i hasten to add is not at all worried that i left a laptop with pre-ipo biotech trade secrets sitting out in the open (start here to understand why) #
lost dog: lost a black/chocolate labrador retriever? #
irony: Long-standing concerns over fatalities of protected species of birds, including the golden eagle at Altamont Pass, have prompted lawsuits by environmentalists that threaten to shut down one of the nation’s oldest wind projects. #
Turkmenbashi shuts down Turkmenistan’s libraries because No one goes to libraries and reads books anyway #
this is such a neat mural design: Immigrant nation (i enjoyed watching the white slowly get painted in riding my bike home from work. i wonder what else is planned?) #
patrick waxes poetical: Thank you white-kid w/dreads #
hehe: I’m tired with the missionary position…and enjoy the newness of the bullfrog position #
extending firefox for web developers #
i show up on the web looking downright saturated (thanks to ben) #
this is AWESOME and totally NSFW!!! the kama sutra in animated photo-realistic gifs #
it’s too much: online version of print newpaper parodies an announced but as yet unreleased group celebrity blog #
strange quote of the day: In addition, they use computers, which some mathematicians regard as unclean. #
huh. Dürer’s Solid #
seriously, check this out: Resizeable Textarea (firefox extension) #
