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  • 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: January 2007

HyperBike.

1/31/20071/31/2007 Notes

Crazy, but it looks strangely fun to ride: Ultimate Hybridhyperbike

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HyperBike.

Spammers, please adjust your scripts.

1/31/20075/9/2018 Notes4 Comments

To the comment spammers hitting my haiku site: There is something buggy with one of your scripts. I keep getting these comments that contain nothing but a bogus email address and a single word:

Array

Now, come on. You call this comment spam?… Read the rest

Spammers, please adjust your scripts.

What happened to iTunes?

1/30/2007 Rough Drafts9 Comments

iTunes 7 logoGenerally, Apple does software reasonably well. The company understands that the user experience doesn’t end with the plastic and the circuits, but also encompasses the on-screen interface, the dialog boxes, and even the fonts used in its applications.

So what happened to iTunes?… Read the rest

What happened to iTunes?

Wikipedia color swatches.

1/29/20071/31/2007 Notes

Somebody has spent a lot of time putting hex codes and swatches for every imaginable color into wikipedia, along with links to related color entries. This is actually useful. Some examples: safety orange – chartreuse – ecru – but not, alas, Pantone 292

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Wikipedia color swatches.

How to hack the government.

1/29/2007 Notes

Carl Malamud explains 10 tricks for making government work for you. Mostly practical, a few idealistic: Internet Archive: Details: Hack 1: Be Media (Internet Governance in a Nutshell)

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How to hack the government.

IP lawyer humor.

1/25/2007 Notes

Shocking — an IP lawyer with a sense of humor: Blogger gets ‘don’t cease-and-desist’ letter for his Second Life satire

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IP lawyer humor.

The purloined sirloin.

1/24/20071/25/2007 Notes

Best headline of the month: The purloined sirloin. Why Americans love to shoplift meat. – By Brendan I. Koerner – Slate Magazine (thanks Scot)

Also, 25 million of us have stolen movies.

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The purloined sirloin.

Banjo convergence.

1/23/2007 Notes

Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, and Bela Fleck together on NPR. For banjo fans, this is like the harmonic convergence: NPR : Tony Trischka Has More Than One Banjo on His Knee

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Banjo convergence.

Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing

1/23/2007 Notes

Thank god for telecom deregulation, eh? YouTube – Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!

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Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing

Ode to the R.I.A.A.

1/19/2007 Notes

Pogue pens new words to the Village People tune “YMCA”: Ode to the R.I.A.A.

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Ode to the R.I.A.A.

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