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My friend Kasten made me this nifty new Twitter icon…

Seven Days has released it’s annual readers’ choice awards ballot, asking Vermonters to vote on everything from their favorite restaurant to their favorite newscaster. Candleblog has been honored to receive the Best Vermont Blog (non political) “Daysie” for a few of the last several years. After winning the award last year, I predicted that my [...]

My friends at Found Line in Burlington have developed this really simple, elegant and USEFUL web app for aggregating various tagged social media feeds in one spot. It’s cleverly called tagnabit. Based upon their successful Vermont Town Meeting Day aggregator and subsequent Alliance for Community Media conference site, tagnabit lets you enter a tag of [...]

Dan is getting his 15 minutes as a result of his near-death body surf down the face of Mount Washington. In an email last night he writes… it’s a great illustration of life on the intertoobs.  by tuesday i made the top story on boston globe online, as well as “most emailed” on boston.com.  i [...]

Today’s Burlington Free Press… Zucker, a high school physics teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy, guesses he had a tenth of a second to react. He threw his arms over his head and slammed his axes into the snow. The axes went all the way through the snow to the ice beneath, and Zucker thought he’d [...]

My Poli-Sci-Fi Radio co-host, Steve Benen, wrote a short piece for Variety that’s out today (coinciding with the beginning of BSG season 4.5) about the fact that Battlestar Galactica is the most overtly political TV show since The West Wing.  He writes… no program in recent memory has covered such explicitly political ground. It features [...]

I was out of town when the email with this link got sent out so this is a little late. Enjoy…

My peeps at The Contrarian Media empire have got themselves some new digs, courtesy of Contrarian resident tubes-nerd and Kate Bush fan, Tanner McCuin. Tanner fashioned Casey and the boys (we seriously need some gender equity over there) a fancy new blog using WordPress, thus shedding the last vestiges of the old Solid State paradigm [...]

Artist and Candleblog pal Kasten Searles has put this fun little Japanese hairstyle-testing gizmo to awesome and creepy effect using her own sketches. Check these out…

The following links were all sent to me via email. Thanks Eve and AlexC! Teach the controversy and naughty scientists t-shirts for Xmas! I, for one, welcome our new eight-tentacled overlord. A look back at the first Day the Earth Stood Still Shadow of the Colossus cheese toast Aperture Science bento inc. Companion Cube and [...]