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October 2008 - Posts
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Four years ago, Elouise and I hosted an election night party at RIT, in the big IT conference room overlooking the atrium. We had decent turnout (though a less decent election result). I’ve noticed quite a few Google searches on “election...
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For the first time in 75 years, Esquire Magazine has endorsed a candidate for the US presidency. Their lengthy, thoughtful piece is far from a fawning over Obama—in fact, it’s quite harshly critical of him. But they still conclude that electing...
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Back in 2000, Budweiser ran an ad called “Whassup?” that became a bit of a phenomenon. Recently, the cast of that ad was brought back together (not by Budweiser) to film an “8 years later” version that’s pretty powerful....
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What follows is a light-hearted parody of Ed Vielmetti’s suddenly-popular “Twitter Zero” post, followed by some commentary of my own. — Disclaimer: I love my friends - I love being in the flow of the world with the comments of...
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JetBlue’s new terminal at JFK (the remodeled old TWA terminal 5) opened yesterday, so our flight from San Jose was among the first to land here. It’s probably not fair to pass judgment on it given that they’ve only been open a day, but...
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Today was my sixth blogiversary, and it seems fitting that I would celebrate it by listening to danah boyd give a wonderful talk, having a delightful lunch with her, and then giving the closing keynote at Internet Librarian—one of my favorite conferences...
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Too cute. It says to send it to five white women I care about, but I’m pretty sure I can get it to more simply by posting it here…... Read More...
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I forgot to post about this, but tomorrow night (Saturday, 10/18) Little Feat will be playing at Rochester’s Water Street Music Hall. It hasn’t been well publicized, so ticket sales have been slow. The band is amazing, however, and if you’ve...
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I’ve got a couple of tech items that I really like to bring on trips. Some are obvious—my phone and charger, my ipod and headphones (those first two will get compressed by my purchase of an iphone next month), my computer and power cord and...
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Frank Schaeffer, writing in the Baltimore Sun … John McCain: If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as “not one of us,” I accuse you of deliberately...
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4: days since my laptop died, apparently from something I spilled on it though I don’t remember such a spill happening. the bad news? it will be very expensive to repair, and it won’t be done before I leave town this weekend. the good news...
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I apologize to readers of this blog who wish I’d get off the topic of politics. But we’re 33 days away from deciding whether or not to put Sarah Palin one (72-year-old) heartbeat away from the presidency. Every person who plans to vote in...
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