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I’m infuriated by the official U.S. Buy Nothing Day (read about it at Wikipedia, Adbusters). The organizers promote the day after Thanksgiving — i.e., one of the biggest shopping days of the year — as a good day to try to get people not to buy anything.
I think this is the same run-before-you-crawl error […]

I was initially tempted to consider Kerry Healey’s veto of “An Act Relative to Bicycle Safety” a parting shot of willful malice, but reading her note, it seems clear to me that it’s the result of cluelessness and incompetence: Healey thinks of bikes as a means of recreation, not transportation.
Given the price and environmental impact […]

Once upon a time, I attended a conference about (unclassified) artificial intelligence applications in (defense) logistics. One presentation there trumped any horror flick I’ve ever seen for sheer terror. It dealt with robots designed to enter storage tanks that had a mixture of toxic contaminants, identify their contents, and neutralize them (if possible). What made […]

Hello, whoever you are.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about one’s prospective future employers should always be considered as members of the audience for whatever one writes on the Internets. At the moment, you have to be pretty diligent to find your way here by searching on my surname, but the Internets are nothing […]

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Why isn’t the mainstream media paying more attention to this story?
Black Box Voting alleges tampering of voting machines; “approximatley 100,000 errors”
Obviously, this is a group with an agenda. They claim they’re sure they’re looking at live data rather than test data, but it seems possible to me that they are misinterpreting the data.
But I […]

The parodists are having a field day, but this isn’t a situation that calls for parody. It’s a situation that calls for action, and the action it calls for is Vice President Cheney’s immediate resignation.
The Vice President shot someone, and behaved afterwards in a way that’s completely consistent with an attempted cover up.
Whether […]

Zelda Fitzgerald translates the State of the Union address.

I’m sorry, but did I just hear that someone is running on a platform of tightening up border controls because highway congestion in Los fr’n Angeles is the result of too many illegal immigrants?
Tell me that was just a fever dream. Please.
But then again, as I was trying to stop thinking about JavaScript very early […]