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I’m heading out for SXSW first thing tomorrow morning. This is the fourth time I’ve attended the film and interactive festival and conference and it’s always a logistical nightmare figuring out what panels and sessions I want to get to and what films I want to see, but this year is especially complicated and exciting [...]

I’m a constituent in Ward 5. I live in Ledgewood Condominiums on Austin Drive. I should also point out that I just voted for your re-election on Tuesday. I’m writing to express my strong support for the option of turning over the reins of Burlington Telecom to Tim Nulty and the “Group of 9″ so [...]

Chatroulette. I haven’t tried it, but I love that it exists. Here’s a great little documentary about it…

And here’s a ridiculously awesome hack of the idea. I wish I’d thought of this.

I’m pretty excited about this! Join Steve, Emily and me on Sunday from 4 – 6 P.M. eastern time for the live broadcast & stream of Poli-Sci-Fi Radio’s 100th episode. Special guests joining us during Sunday’s broadcast/stream include…

MSNBC political commentator and analyst, Rachel Maddow
Comics writer and illustrator, Brian Wood
Political blogger, Matt Yglesias
Actress and web video [...]

I just watched this web video interview with ProBlogger scribe Darren Rowse in which he admonishes new bloggers to blog abut subjects they have some expertise in. This is really good advice — it makes the blog in question not only interesting and entertaining (assuming the blogger has some writing chops and a winning personality) [...]

I was totally thrashed by the flu last week. I taught class a week ago Monday, despite feeling under the weather (mistake) and then for the next five days I couldn’t stand up for more than a few minutes at a time and had a very bad chest/head situation. There was no high fever, which [...]

Because I still occasionally find the five minutes in my schedule to do a linkdump…

Selleck Waterfall Sandwich. God bless the Internet.
Sexting, and what it means to be a girl
How to report the news
Augmented Hyper-Reality (a view of the future?)
UK SF writer Damien G. Walter is teaching a class on science fiction and politics. The Recees [...]

Clay Shirky breaks down Secretary Clinton’s speech on Internet freedom Thursday to it’s basic principals and commitments.
Lawrence Lessig reacts to the SCOTUS’s recent Citizens United case.
And David Rees gives us 5 Jokes About The Apparent Eagerness Of Certain Democratic Members Of Congress To Abandon Health Care Reform In Light Of Scott Brown’s Electoral Victory.

Our internet has been in and out for two days. That’s typical for the weekend. It’s astounding how used to it I’ve become. Imagine if another utility — say the electric company — had regular outages or intermittent service as a common occurrence. They’d lose their Certificate of Public Good in two minutes flat. Somehow [...]

Reinhardt. Not Fett.
Today is guitar genius Jean Baptiste “Django” Reinhardt’s 100th birthday.
Treat yourself and listen to some of this music. Django was incredible — and only had two usable fingers on his left hand (that’s the hand that makes chords). Django is on my short list of greatest guitar players of all time.
Seriously, take a [...]