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Spaceward Ho! was one of my all-time favorite games on the Mac in the 1990s – and now it has been released for the iPad!
Great quick video from the Decemberists’ Tiny Desk Concert at NPR: “I was sort of always under the impression that these things were done while everybody was just…
Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) is most well known for “The Revolution Will Not be Televised” but this 1977 live gig with Brian Jackson will expose you to more of…
Screen shown just before taking the Jeopardy online test a few weeks back. I thought about trying to screen-shot some of the actual test questions but then that…
(via BoingBoing) As someone who spends way too much time “collaborating” by way of exchanging slide decks and arguing the minutiae of bullet points, I was always a…
Just had yet another laugh out loud moment reading Criggo and realized I’ve never posted about it. Criggo is basically Jay Leno’s Headlines routine from Monday nights as…
Just for fun, here’s a wordle of my dissertation, on (nearly) the 10th anniversary of finishing it: Generated by Wordle. Technically not quite based on the final version,…
Just finished reading The Transparent Society, David Brin’s 1998 rumination on the question of “Will Technology Force Us to Chose Between Privacy and Freedom.” It’s a really thoughtful…
When it opened this summer, Vej Naturals quickly became one of the highest rated restaurants on the Boston Vegan Association database, getting an overall rating of 4.4 out…
The Boston Vegan Association monthly meeting was this weekend at MyThai, in Brookline. Although I don’t get to as many of these meetings as I’d like (after commuting…
I’ve spent a couple of weeks in London over the last month for work. It’s frankly a great city to be a vegan in, with lots of ethnic…
Site Specific Browsers, or SSBs, are a relatively new concept in which you basically create an application which is designed just to browse to a particular website. It…
Well, it was a vegan night at the Pops for Jo and I anyway – maybe some day they will have an official night. Started out with dinner…
So Oprah Winfrey’s joined the list of celebs taking the vegan challenge. From the PETA files: Inspired by the book Quantum Wellness, by Kathy Freston, Oprah’s going to…
Old news, I know, but I find Garfield Minus Garfield captivating. It’s sort of existentialist, nihilist, and postmodern all at the same time.
Via a tweet by Beth Kanter I discovered a new booklet produced by the Tactical Technology Collective: Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design In their…