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Posts from February 2008

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not the smallest room I’ve ever been in.
A photo I took of Chicago’s Union Station two Decemberweens ago was included in the latest edition of Schmap, an interactive city guide. They asked if I would let them consider it for submission in the guide, and since I really had no reason not to, I [...]


Where for art thou, FiOS?

Not in Dot, that’s for sure. But soon, FiOS will be available in some place in Massachusetts called “Monroe” which has a population of 93. Ninety fucking three.
I bet a lot of them sign up! Whoooooo doggie!
Other WMass metropolises where Verizon will be deploying include New Ashford (pop. 247), Rowe (351), Florida (676), [...]


links for 2008-02-28

The Original Zubaz Pants
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THEY HAVE RETURNED
(tags: pants)


links for 2008-02-26

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
bless The Onion.
(tags: TheOnion Diebold election)

The Great Pizza Orientation Test
None Pizza with Left Beef
(tags: food design)


Mass. Health Insurance Sucks

In a not horribly surprising move, the subsidized health care plan that is supposed to be the cheap way into health insurance for the less fortunate is about to get a hell of a lot more expensive just months after the date passed by which everyone in Massachusetts was forced to have health insurance or [...]


New Server

Over the weekend, I moved Ataxia and some other sites off of my Linux box sitting on my home Comcast connection to a shiny new VPS host at Linode. Linode is a rocking hosting company. I had a host from them a couple of years ago and am glad to go back.
The major [...]


Regarding Comments

A little meta note regarding comments.  I noticed the other day that my little computer hosting the website isn’t able to send email to anything that isn’t itself, meaning that no one receives the required confirmation email needed to be able to comment. Looks like good ol’ Comcast took the initiative of blocking email servers [...]


links for 2008-02-16

The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Part II
The finest summary of Roger Clemens testifying to Congress that shall ever be written.
(tags: RogerClemens)


links for 2008-02-15

Pepsi Raw
please sell this in the US.
(tags: natural soda)


to my Congressman immediately upon hearing of the Senate passing S. 2248

Dear Mr. Lynch,
I read this morning that the Senate passed S. 2248, which among other things would grant immunity to telecommunications companies that were complicit in illegal surveillance activity against Americans.
I can honestly say that I’ve never been more ashamed to be an American.
Please, Mr. Lynch, I beg of you to do everything you can [...]


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