Candleblog

Tuesday is coming! Once you’ve done your civic duty and voted, you’ll no doubt be glued to various media outlets and awaiting some results. Those of you in Vermont may wish to keep a Firefox tab open to channel17.org, where all kinds of Vermont-centric election coverage will be going on. Along with the cable access [...]

That is to say, the hammer has fallen.  On me.  Ow.  A metric ton of personal and professional crap has piled up this week and I’m trying to keep my head above the water line (and to not mix my metaphors so much — yikes). Anyway, until the smoke clears, I encourage you all to [...]

The Vermont election-cycle blog, Exit Voices, has a correspondent at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week! JD Ryan from Five Before Chaos will be filing video blog posts from the convention floor on behalf of EV all week. I’m the Vermont-based support for JD so I’ll be spending some of my blogging time [...]

Here are a few bits and pieces that have made me go “hmm” and rub my chin beard in the last few days… Spine linked to an Atlantic Monthly piece about how Google may be making us stupid, or more accurately, how the ways our brains are made to work when interfacing with the ‘net [...]