Archive for November, 2008

Nov 30 2008

it’s a depression2.0* special

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I am making olives! Well, to be totally specific, the trees on the campus here — 1500 of them, apparently mostly heritage varieties, planted as a gift by ye olde settlers — made the olives. But I picked some, from the trees that overhang a bikepath I frequent, and now I am attempting to cure [...]

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Nov 16 2008

meta edit of evil

Published by under wik-eh-pedia

I knew trying to restart the List Syndication Service was a bad idea. It led my edit count on Meta over to the dark side: It doesn’t help that I’ve been watching a “The Godfather” marathon all night on cable.

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Nov 12 2008

welcome to the world

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Welcome to the world, Mister Stavro Evangelo, man about the networked town, born six days ago and already worldly: That’s the cool look you’ll be giving VC investors when you ask for your first three million to fund a startup, just like your daddy. Also, with the ladies, who will be impressed with your bilingual [...]

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Nov 03 2008

pps., because librarians are made out of 100% awesome, and I have broadband

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I think I am going to have an internet video playoff at the party tomorrow. What are your favorite internet videos about the election etc.? here is one of my favorites that a friend shared with me.

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Nov 03 2008

and in news that is not about the election

The FSF released the GFDL 1.3 today, which is a minor version with an important change: it allows certain wikis, e.g. Wikipedia, to relicense their content under CC-BY-SA. Erik writes that there will be a discussion on meta about it later this month. This is a good step for license compatibility and reuse of Wikipedia [...]

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Nov 03 2008

Is it too much to hope

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That my friends who have moved in the past few years to Virginia, Ohio, Florida are in fact representative of lots of other people and that between them all, will sway the vote? Like Lessig, I am worried about this election. At any rate, go vote tomorrow, hmm? And then come over to my house [...]

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