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Dreamhost is having a problem with the PSFR server so I’m hosting this week’s PSFR chat at Candleblog. Also, today is this blog’s 8th blogiversary. Cue the balloon-drop. Show is live today from 4-6pm eastern. Go here for LIVE stream options. PSFR179

A former student just stopped by and asked if he could interview me about blogging and social media for his netroots class (he had a book by Clay Shirky with him as his text). I said sure and offered to record it for him on a digital audio recorder so he wouldn’t have to take [...]

Cross-posted at Geek Mountain State. Andrew at Geek Mountain State asked me to write a post looking back at nerdy stuff in 2011. I didn’t see every movie or play every video game, so this isn’t an all-encompassing year-in-review post, but as I made my notes preparing to write the thing, I realized it was [...]

Links too delicious not to share… This is old, but I love it. Free speech is not a pony. My friend Spine got one of these and we wants it, precious. Some thoughtful thoughts by Casey Re: the onerous Stop Online Piracy Act. Alan Moore reacts to Frank Miller’s BS. It’s true. William Shatner and [...]

In March of 1988, at the tender age of 17, I registered to vote for the first time at a Frank Zappa concert in Burlington’s Memorial Auditorium. I turned 18 before the 1988 presidential election and cast my first-ever ballot in November of that year. I remember voting for almost all of the Democrats (including [...]

…I was awakened by a phone call from my cousin Jessica, who was due to fly to Vermont from Illinois later that day. She said “well we’re obviously not coming today.” I said “what? Why?” She said “turn on your TV.” I watched the towers fall and then I got a call from my friend [...]

It’s the end of my 42nd birthday and I’ve spent today relaxing. I’ve played video games, been taken out for a meal and for drinks, had dinner made for me by my wife, had presents given to me, and been utterly overwhelmed by facebook friends wishing me well on my special day. I took the [...]

For Emily’s birthday, I got her a nifty little device that really tugs on my techno-utopian bone. It’s called a Fitbit, and it’s a little doo-hickey that you carry around that contains a 3-D motion tracking accelerometer (sort of like a Wii controller) that infers all sorts of things about your behavior, and then generates [...]

So the plot of Transformers Dark of the Moon is that in 1961 a ship carrying special Transformers technology that could help win the Cybertron war crashed on the Earth’s moon, was noticed by observers on Earth (in the US and USSR), who then had a space race to get to the moon and see [...]

I’m revisiting my blog a bit these days, trying to figure out a way to make it useful for me and integrate it into my other social networking outlets, which have more or less taken over my net-life recently. In the process, I’ve come to have to actually deal with old WP versions and malicious [...]