I really like learning about US government and history — I’m a little obsessed about it sometimes, really. For all the problems, I have incredible admiration for the broad and varied group of people who contributed to the founding and the creation and the running of our country. I have some issues with our current [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
February 29, 2008 – 10:02 am
one more reason to like matt
There are a lot of reasons to like Matt Mullenweg, creator of Wordpress (which powers this blog) and founder of Automattic. (For one, he’s an incredibly nice guy. For another, Wordpress is exceptional (and open source) software.)
But from Webware’s reporting on the FOWA conference, here’s another one:
[Matt] also has a pretty nontraditional view of ad [...]
February 29, 2008 – 9:57 am
192021.org
192021.org is a promise from Richard Saul Wurman, founder of the outstanding TED Conference, to do a longitudinal research and sharing project focused around the rise of supercities in our world — in particular, the 19 cities that will each have more than 20 million inhabitants in the 21st century. The site right now is [...]
February 22, 2008 – 6:41 pm
sniff
i haven’t logged in in months, so just canceled my WoW account. seems sorta sad. i already miss Frink. <sniff>
February 21, 2008 – 8:02 pm
half a billion served.
Another amazing milestone for Mozilla, with 500,000,000 downloads of Firefox to date. Incredibly humbling to be able to participate in a project like this. More work to do. Like this, for instance. (and this. )
But for now, amazing. It’s a wonderful thing to be part of.
The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks
Jul 3, 0:54 › Brian: Use of Weapons is indisputably the best of the series Jun 25, 17:52 › mel s: Hi.. Just randomly surfed by. You seem to be quite