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Tomorrow morning I will attend my first Vermont ACLU meeting as a member of the Board of Directors. That’s right, I’m a card-carrying member of the ACLU and I’m on their board. So far, this has benefited me by being a really good excuse to give the ACLU donation-seekers: “um, I already volunteer my time [...]

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Once again, San Francisco-based indy pop sensation, Blammos, is spending the month of November making music videos. In fact, the band is making and posting a new video every single day this month. They did this same thing last November and from what I’ve seen, this year’s crop of indy YouTube gems is even better [...]

…where quite a few people have gone before, actually.
Emily and I saw Quantum of Solace Saturday night and the much-ballyhooed second Star Trek trailer ran before the film. I couldn’t let the event pass without comment since my childhood was seriously imbued with Trek canon. Before the Next Generation was ever born, I was deeply [...]

Once again, little Vermont is trying to save America from itself. As of now, Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders — the two senators from Vermont — are the only two US senators saying that they will vote to strip the chairmanship of the homeland security and government affairs senate committee from Joe Lieberman. Lieberman not [...]

I wrote a lengthy post yesterday about California’s proposition 8 and the definition of the word “right” as it pertains to constituations and case law and Wordpress ate it and spit half of it back up. I got frustrated and couldn’t rewrite the thing. I’ll get to it soon.
Been busy lately but have lots of [...]

Yay! Gravity Lens is back!

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I want to to take a minute and point out a couple of cases of traditional media embracing social media in Vermont.
First of all, VCAM has entered the social media realm more forcefully lately. Spear-headed by my co-worker Seth, VCAM now has a growing Facebook presence (and group) and a twitter account to go along [...]

The display on my MacBook Pro died yesterday. I dropped it off at Small Dog today and I’m typing this on a loaner machine from work.
The guy at Small Dog looked at my machine’s stats (17″ MBP, hi-res display, 7200 RPM 160 GB HD, 2.4 ghz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM) and even though [...]

As MSNBC cut between New York and Chicago and Kenya and Atlanta last night following the 11:00 p.m. official call for Obama, was I the only one thinking of the montage of victory celebrations at the end of Return of the Jedi? At the risk of stretching analogies between the Bush administration and the Galactic [...]