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It gets better

By alex | Published: 11/24/2010
I'm sure you’ve seen a number of these, but I particularly like Pixar’s take, precisely because it’s a bunch of people who are not Hollywood stars in the traditional sense. It gets better for lots of people, not just the super-famous. (Hat-tip to the always-awesome Prof. Hacker.)
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Web Education in Schools

By alex | Published: 11/16/2010
Great talk by Anna Debenham at Mozilla Drumbeat in Barcelona a couple weeks ago…
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A Damned Shame

By alex | Published: 10/2/2010
Hunter S. Thompson from the best cover letter ever: As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If this is what [...]
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Memorial Day

By alex | Published: 6/4/2010
I have mixed feelings about claims we should support the soldiers no matter what the politics of a war. I recognize that there are pragmatic as well as humanitarian reasons for doing so. When they kill they do so at the behest of the collective; they do so not as individuals but as America. I [...]
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Jerky Merging

By alex | Published: 5/13/2010
I‘m done with school for the year, and so, also with my exciting four-hour commute up to Connecticut. Especially after the thaw, that already painful commute got further complicated with lane closures as they tried to repair the damage of Father Winter. When a lane closes, the remaining lanes move slower. It’s that simple. People [...]
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Glorious Five Year Plan

By admin | Published: 4/12/2010
I started to write a whiny post about a season that feels overly filled with angst. Rather than bother you with my continuing mid-life crisis, which began when I was about fifteen and has yet to abate, I figured I would instead bore you, Dear Reader, with some goals that would help me to see [...]
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Zipcar Fail

By alex | Published: 3/23/2010
Let me start out by saying I have been a big fan of Zipcar for many years. For those not in the know, the company provides cars parked in local lots that you can unlock with an RFID enabled card and take out in half-hour increments to accomplish quick chores. They also have a nice [...]
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