This is a great holiday song:
Yearly Archives: 2008
Name that leader
Reading these quotes tonight: We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That …
Testing out Vimeo’s HD embeds
Does this work? http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2451851&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1USGP Cyclocross Championships (Portland) Day 1 from Matt Haughey on Vimeo.
The unfortunate mainstreaming of internet douchebaggery
Today someone spammed MetaFilter on behalf of Conde Nast publications, and it pissed me off way more than the average occasional spammy self-promoter on MeFi. We have a strict rule at MeFi (since there's no editorial vetting upfront) that you can't post about your own stuff, you have to make posts to interesting random stuff …
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Buying good stuff
There have been a lot of posts to Ask MetaFilter recently asking about inexpensive christmas presents and how to make your own presents and where to find the best deals, but I really enjoyed this thread on great things worth splurging on. As I've grown older I've slowly started to look for value in things …
Hodgman, Coulton, and Roderick
The highlight of the Live Wire/Wordstock event I attended a week ago was this:
Bigger Stronger Faster
I watched Bigger Stronger Faster last night. It's a movie about steroid use in sports which is something I thought I was pretty dead set in my opinions about. As a cyclist I'm keenly aware of how widespread cheating in the sport is and I've always held a pretty low opinion of those that did …
President Obama
After watching McCain’s concession speech last night, I realized it was John McCain’s election to lose. From a mile up, the race was between a guy with tons of experience and some pretty hardcore wartime stories going up against another guy that was new to the senate and was basically unknown before 2004 to most …
My new year’s wish finally comes true
Eleven months later, my new year’s wish comes true (well, president-elect levels of true)
Why I’m blocking you on twitter
I've been using twitter for about a year and a half now and I follow about 150 friends, acquaintances, and applications. A little over 2k users of the service follow me, and it seems I get about 10 new followers a day. Over the past few months however, I've taken to blocking the obvious spammy …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 