I won’t sugarcoat this with self-righteousness: my primary reasons for finding myself carless are financial, nothing more.

But at the same time, wheels have NEVER been a priority for me. If they were, I’d likely live in a smaller apartment and think nothing of driving an hour each way to

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I’m often terrible at connecting names and faces; I tend to think of it more as trouble connecting the noumenon with the phenomenon of people. Sometimes I say ‘I know your shape, but not your name.’

For several weeks, I’ve been noticing Burning Dan in my stream, and apprecia

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I don’t think anyone noticed, but I’ve had Facebook Like done wrong on my site for a few weeks. I had pasted in their boilerplate code, not noticing that the URL was encoded in there already as example.com. Duh.

I made myself a little helper that should work well for everyone. It autom

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The thought came about because I ate at McDonald’s today. I eat a lot of fast food, but I usually don’t eat at McD’s very often, unless I need to eat while I’m driving. I avoid it partly because of a perception that it’s ‘less healthy’ (and rather more bor

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There’s a thread on LiveJournal regarding a recent Burner party that was shut down by Native American groups who were offended by a “go native” party theme. The thread can be found here:

http://community.livejournal.com/convert_me/1274402.html

Part of the discussion includes der

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In 2002, when I was getting laid off from Nokia, I proposed an idea for a service that, in some ways, resembles what Facebook is today, especially after the latest redesign.

I’m not pretending I invented Facebook… My plan was quite different in many ways, in particular I planned it to b

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Tears are being shed for the death of the printed newspaper.

The words of patriots are bent to serve pure nostalgia.

Dead? Rubbish! The fourth estate is healthier than ever, at last in the hands of the rabble instead of landowners and scandalmongers.

I see that many jobs will be lost, but how ludic

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So, I got my car fixed – heater core, some sort of hose, the radiator too I think, plus a serpentine belt and one or two minor other issues. I picked it up, and it was purring like a kitten, except for one thing: “SERVICE AIR BAG”. I couldn’t see any of the other sensor readi

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I wanted to give my Ruby on Rails app a simple jQuery driven custom boolean field, styled as a lock for security purposes. You know, click on the lock and it opens, click on it again and it closes.

I especially wanted to use it like the other Form Builder tags within a form_for block, just the sam

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I need to start this off by saying that I did, in fact, vote against Proposition 8. A great many of my friends are gay, I support them with all of my heart, and fully understand why this means so much to them. But I feel like I didn’t really stick to my moral compass by voting against it.

I

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