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Ripples

Being woke from a half sleep, I read the following over at Dave Rogers, about his finding out that a neighbor of his had died: So here’s this guy, 35 or thereabouts, who’s going through some tough times, and he’s pretty well off financially, I guess […] He lived probably 50 feet from where I’m typing these […]

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Connecting Weblogging

When the tilt in pinball is a good thing

Stavros the Wonderchicken returns in true style: I hit post, now, dear lost readers in their thousands, not sure if this is resurrection or coda, but hoping a few diehard outliers of the wonderchicken army are still out there, and when their newsfeed ticks over from that limp and dusty (0) over to an erectile (1), that […]

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Connecting Diversity

Looking outside of self

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dori Smith writes about putting together conference panels made up exclusively of women. Coming up with panelists for SxSW was easy. As Shelley gave away a few days ago, she, Kathy Sierra, Virginia DeBolt and I are going to be on a panel together, and I think it’s going to be a […]

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Neighborly news

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you haven’t had a chance to check out Jerry’s electric car weblog, give it a glance. In the weblog, Jerry is chronicling the process of converting a gas burning Ford Probe into a sleek, clean, electric car. Jeneane was on the radio today talking about blogging. Nifty Jeneane. Now, we gotta get […]

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A habit of giving

As AKMA reminds us, new disasters have happened recently–Hurricane Stan and the earthquake in Pakistan–that seem to have fallen below the blogging radar. This is in addition to the longstanding disasters such as the continued mass starvation in Africa. With environmental impacts due to global warming, and an increased population that is both more widely distributed and more […]