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  • Zen, death, love, and an exorcism.
  • I have heard the toadfish singing.
  • Walking through a shitstorm.
  • Either way, you get your pet back.
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  • A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism
  • We’re Not in This Together | Ajay Singh Chaudhary
  • [Essay] Poem for Harm, by Matthew Zapruder | Harper's Magazine
  • What’s ‘wild swimming’? The perfect antidote to cabin fever
  • ‘A Preventable Catastrophe’
  • Discord Was Once The Alt-Right’s Favorite Chat App. Now It’s Gone Mainstream And Scored A New $3.5 Billion Valuation
  • The Infinite Heartbreak of Loving Hong Kong
  • Guest Blog: From The Mainland to A Marathoner-- My T.I. Journey from Non-Swimmer to Open Water Long Distance - Total Immersion
  • The Hidden History Of Juneteenth
  • Where will you be? Why Black Lives Matter in the Hawaiian Kingdom

Recent books

Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Why We Swim
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui

Hitler
Hitler
by Joachim Fest

Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer




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Month: July 2006

Who’s wagging the long tail?

7/31/2006 Rough Drafts2 Comments

The “long tail” is digerati shorthand for the the increasing profitability of companies’ backlists–the formerly neglected niche products that used to be kept in stock just in case one of them suddenly turned into a breakout hit, or because they were simply necessary to have a fully-stocked store.… Read the rest

Who’s wagging the long tail?

Google AdSense vs. AdBrite.

7/28/2006 Rough Drafts8 Comments

AdBriteAdSenseJust for kicks, and because AdBrite has such cute branding, I decided to check out its advertising network. I’ve been using Google AdSense for awhile (and just got my first $100 check from it last month, woo hoo) but I’m open to alternatives, especially if they stand a chance of making me a little dough.… Read the rest

Google AdSense vs. AdBrite.

My haiku in Heron’s Nest.

7/27/20061/1/2013 haiku, poetryPoems1 Comment

Calder sculpture;
a single brown leaf tumbling
from the sky

published in The Heron’s Nest VIII.2, June 2006

This is my first published haiku outside of tinywords.

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My haiku in Heron’s Nest.

Fixies.

7/25/20067/28/2006 Rough Drafts4 Comments

When I was a kid, the more gears your bike had, the cooler it was. Yet San Francisco is just crawling with single-speed bikes. On closer inspection, I found that many of these bikes don’t even have coaster brakes–they’ve got direct-drive chains.… Read the rest

Fixies.

Singing Science Records

7/25/2006 Notes

I’m definitely adding some of these tunes to the “some day learn to play on ukelele” list. I love the Miro-like album covers too: Singing Science Records

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Singing Science Records

Anti-spam and digicams.

7/24/20067/31/2006 Rough Drafts

Here are two upcoming PCMagCast events that I’m producing and moderating. Lots of useful info in both of them — check them out!


SMB Bootcamp: How to Can Spam
(Tuesday, July 25, at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific)
A 60-minute overview of anti-spam technologies for small-medium businesses, featuring PCMag analysts Neil J.… Read the rest

Anti-spam and digicams.

Ukulele boogaloo.

7/21/2006 Notes

Big, eclectic, wonderfully easy-to-use collection of ukulele tabs: Ukulele Boogaloo

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Ukulele boogaloo.

EFF: Perfect 10 v. Google

7/21/20067/21/2006 Notes

I love it: A bunch of librarians (and EFF) are helping Google fight a porn publisher for the right to make thumbnails of their dirty pictures: EFF: Perfect 10 v. Google, here’s the press release

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EFF: Perfect 10 v. Google

SMS 411.

7/20/20067/20/2006 Rough Drafts1 Comment

Want to learn more about SMS, aka short message service, aka cell phone text messaging? Check out my new site, SMS411.net, which provides simple, easy-to-understand information on how to use SMS with U.S. cell phones.

Although the popularity of SMS is rapidly growing in the U.S.,… Read the rest

SMS 411.

Technology Review: Wireless Wonder Chip

7/20/2006 Notes

HP’s working on a 4 megabit RFID chip half the size of a grain of rice (most RFIDs only hold a few kilobits). TR goes ga-ga: Technology Review: Wireless Wonder Chip

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Technology Review: Wireless Wonder Chip

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