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Tech
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Commentary, News, Tech
When it rains, it torrents.
It’s rain verging on snow outside in Boston tonight; the girls and I laid low after a short (that’d be one day) first week of classes and watched The West Wing on DVD.
I was downloading a little something else on BitTorrent for afterwards, but unhappy with the Torrent, went looking elsewhere.
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Tech, Video
“The air was religion and supressed excitement”
The marvelous Brothers McLeod are creating a series of cartoons called Spamland. The dialogue for the cartoons comes from the semi-sensical text found in the filter-busting portion of spam messages.
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News, Tech
Bye, James
I never watched TechTV in its first life and only occasionally stumbled across James when on CNET, but he was clearly a wonderful man who has touched a great, great many people. His family’s story is tragic, and I pray for Kati and the kids as they pick up the pieces.
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Geekery, Meta, Music, Tech, University
Flotsam and jetsam
Jenny Lewis played the Berklee Performance Center tonight. Just fine show - ‘Jack Killed Mom’ is such an incredible song - Lauren and I sat so far away in the first row of the mezzanine. Had a thoroughly enjoyable conversation with Runion and picked up his EP, said hi to Jason and got fashion tips. [...]
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Race, Tech
The good, the bad, and the ugly
Holy mother of Moses am I glad to be back inside the loving arms of the Diesel Cafe. And have you ever seen a more beautiful apartment than ours? No. Nothing compares 2 it. Boston is here, and I can’t hardly believe it. It was a red eye flight over from beloved San Jose: tears [...]
