I went to the hardware store today, looking to buy a notebook before my job interview this afternoon. On the way I stopped by Kinkos to print out a copy […]
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An very funny Yelp post (maybe you know you’re a SFian when you blog Yelp posts). My personal favorite, and one I’m guilty of. When you start a new company […]
I’m hanging out at The Future of Webapps seminar and have a small break in which to sum up some really cool ideas from this mornings talks. Dick Hardt is […]
I have been fully remiss in putting up my notes from Carson System’s Future of Web Applications… I am working on it. The reason I’ve taken so long is due […]
I’m now working in the mission district of San Francisco at eMochila. I’m a member of the sales team there. We build websites for professionals, and our focus is on […]
Dear Friends and Supporters, On Sunday, November 12th in Racine, I will hold my 1000th Listening Session with the people of Wisconsin. Before reaching that milestone, I want you to […]
I’m vastly aware no-one/very few people read this… hence it is going to become way for me to organize and publish my thoughts, and work on communicating and recomending in […]
One of my favorite videos ever.Jon Stewart makes an awesome speech on Crossfire completely dismantling Tucker Carlson. Begala gets a little as well but Tucker really gets it. I recently […]
Watch The Daily Show’s Short on Myspace.Just hilarious… As a recovering myspace adict, I actually think Myspace has been brought to us by the devil and no longer use it, […]
Go Check out FairVote. n I’m all for this change to direct election, it will encourage people to get out and vote. Here’s an excerpt from their webpage. n That’s […]
I’ve enjoyed some European Travel, and I need to get some more places. After school (and probably grad school) I plan on moving out of the USA at least for […]
Many will agree that the supposed diplomatic triumph at the Cancun climate talks offered little tangible progress to further reduce emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The famously reclusive Apollo 11 commander breaks his silence to answer the burning question why his team didn’t cover more ground during its moon landing.
Most Americans don’t have a rainy day fund and haven’t saved enough for retirement. How can we prevent future generations from making the same mistakes? Teach kids about money.
Much of the history of the city can be written as a tension between the visible and the invisible. What and who gets seen? By whom? Who interprets the city’s meaning?
Twombly, now 82, is the great survivor of the heroic age of American painting, the generation of Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Jackson Pollock, who upended contemporary art.
After the Big Bang theory was challenged by British cosmologist Robert Penrose, three new papers are pushing back, saying there is no evidence of time before the Big Bang.
Where does sad music get its sadness from? A widely accepted notion is that the interval of a minor third—two pitches separated by one full tone and one semi-tone—conveys sadness.
New York’s art world is the subject of Steve Martin’s third novel, filtered through the eyes of an ambitious young woman. For Martin, the new book comes with greater confidence.
Some economists have suggested adjusting the supply-and-demand problem through market incentives. Instead of asking people to donate their organs, why not just pay for them?
The different reactions from Internet firms to the WikiLeaks publications reveal a dilemma. Many citizens regard the Internet as a public space, but in fact it is a private sphere.
There has been outrage from both sides of the aisle at the deal that Obama has worked out with the Republican leadership to extend the Bush tax cuts. Some Republicans […]
It is that time a year again – final exams, Christmas music and the annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. All this does make the end of the […]
Liberals and conservatives have different ways of looking at other people—literally. Scientists say that conservatives tend to ignore what other people look at.
Some historians have regarded Eisenhower’s Farewell Address as an afterthought. Others have regarded it as the soulful expression of a prescient if aging President.
Between 2004 and 2009, the U.S. newspaper industry lost 34 per cent of its readers; the U.K. industry lost 22 per cent. Since then, the speed of the downturn has increased.
Democracy and capitalism have each become compulsory and fundamental, so we can only get outside them through the kind of postsecular leap of faith, says professor Simon During.
The great-grandmother of Jesus was a woman named Ismeria, according to Florentine medieval manuscripts analyzed by a historian.
U.S. culture is going down like a thrashing mastodon giving itself up to some Pleistocene tar pit. Either we don’t care or we’re addicted to things that discourage us from caring.
In the wake of controversy over the possible discovery of arsenic-eating life last week a basic question perhaps deserves revisiting: Just what, exactly, is life?