Check out this plugin for Firefox for blogging: Performancing. [via Gen Kanai weblog: Performancing] Update: After only a couple posts, I’m not impressed. The Blog This function is buggy, there’s no spell check (essential for some of us), and there’s just to many tabs, buttons, and sections. It’s a nice tool, but I’m still liking […]
Oh yeah.. we’re Web 2.0, baby. We’re lean, mean, and we like to validate. Or something… Does any get this Web 2.0 thing, aside from the people trying to sell you something Web 2.0 related?You can make your own logo here. [via Micro Persuasion]
GPU, an open-source project that allows the formation of P2P grids, added a “no military use” clause to their GPL-based software license. The license says that “the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed.” Which is […]
Via Patrick Austin’s photo stream, who takes some of the coolest photos of A2.
Want to know why yesterday’s foiled terrorist plot actually worked? Watch the show with zefrank – 08-10-06 and you’ll understand. To wit: Today the President said, “This nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom to hurt our nation.” Generalized statements like this […]
Why are developers always, always at loggerheads with residents? What is it about open land, rows of modest houses, and quiet neighborhoods that just screams “Build condos on me!!!”? In many ways the Lower Ninth Ward incorporated all of the components of a lively, sustainable, engaging Smart Growth neighborhood. Residents understand the authentic connectivity that […]
So, in my continuing immersion (descent?) into all thing New Orleans, I have one nagging question at the fringes of my mind: How, exactly, does a Michigan resident (native and current) actually go about involving himself in, well, all things New Orleans? I can’t go there with any regularity or, for that matter, at all, […]
So, I’ve been drawn into New Orleans politics, mostly because a) they matter and b) people around Ann Arbor think their politics are as important, which they are not. What got my hackles up was a “vote” conducted by Concordia Architecture and Planning (which I talked about over here). I’m still coming up to speed […]