I saw this on TikTok, but an ofrenda in Uvalde, Texas this weekend representing all the students lost this year, placed on school desks, while the “Remember Me” song from Coco played kind of broke me a little bit today.
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CNN’s always breaking news
I’ve been an email subscriber to CNN’s Breaking News alerts for over a decade. In the beginning, it was sporadic and you might only get an email every couple weeks when some major disaster happened in the world. About five years ago it became once every few days, but still limited to major news events. …
In Defense of Twittering During Tragedy
Yesterday, I noticed blogs lighting up as they passed along the story of a mother supposedly twittering while her son drowned and the massive backlash that followed including instant accusations of parental neglect. The story sounded too good to be true, the kind of stuff people write in their heads and hold in draft mode …
The entrepreneurial case for national healthcare
From my post in October 2008 about my election issue wishlist: Universal Healthcare. Everyone I know that freelances or works a day job and wishes they could quit and follow their dreams of launching a company complains about the lack of healthcare. Whenever I used to talk about freelancing at tech conferences, the first question …
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You get what you pay for
Contributions from Oil & Gas industry to Bush 2000 campaign: $1,889,206 Contributions from Oil & Gas industry to Bush 2004 campaign: $2,596,725 Price of a barrel of crude oil at the beginning of 2001: about $23 Price of a barrel of crude oil at the end of April, 2008: nearly $120 $1 trillion profits to …
Cirrus SR20 crash in Manhattan
Philip Greenspun, owner of a Cirrus SR20 himself has a great post speculating on what happened in today’s crash in Manhattan. What many assume was terrorism or suicide might have just been a couple minor mistakes resulting in the bad crash.
Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion
Holy crap, the rumors were true: Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion I’m really happy about this and think it’s a good thing. Like I said last month, YouTube offers a fundamental shift in how video is shared online and provided a free hosting outlet for millions of people. YouTube proved that broadband and video …
Give Ceres a chance
I’m right there with Mike on the planets thing. I love that there are people fighting tooth and nail over this stuff.
Morally Inappropriate Fuels
I’ve long been a fan of alternate fuels and doing something to challenge car manufacturers to think of new ways to transport us without having to use oil, but this recent story on Treehugger kind of threw me for a loop: Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s top marketer of biofuels, considers using food crops to …
Odd
Five undergraduate programs are being dropped: civil and environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, computer engineering and exercise and sports science. Tulane University got rid of their Civil Engineering program in the wake of Katrina. Doesn’t that seem odd? At the time when New Orleans needs to be rebuilt, the biggest university …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 