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Blogging (here) since 2005
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California High Speed Rail Blog
If this election year had found me in California and you happened to be within earshot you would already be sick of hearing me talk about this. But as an ex-patriate and defector I find myself just tracking from afar. In a democracy, however, it is important to spark...
Podcast roundup: Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web
Just saw one of the best TED talk videos I've ever seen: Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web | Video on TED.com. Basically tells a familiar story of the convergence of web and media that was covered in so many classes I TAed at UCSC and gives a glimpse of what I'd like...
Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jacksonville Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life | The Onion – Americas Finest News Source
Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jacksonville Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life ha ha ha ha
OMG Best Blog Ever?
Step aside Fail Dogs. Domo nom nom is a blog where updates are in the form of edibles for a bizarre monster. This may be not worth explaining other than to say check it out but it definitely turns the concept of a blog on its head.
Tumbled Picnic Picture in Delores Park
Was browsing through my archives since the website update and ended up on a random tumblr. Something about seeing a picture of a picnic in Delores Park (San Francisco) at the bottom of a tumblog really just smacks of home to me.
US Is “More Communist than China”: Jim Rogers – Financials Europe News Story – CNBC.com
Found this story on Digg US Is "More Communist than China": Jim Rogers - Financials Europe News Story - CNBC.com. Very poignant discussion if brief on the Mortgage crisis. "This is madness, this is insanity, they have more than doubled the American national debt in...
new look for natecooper.net
I finally got around to fixing up natecooper.net. It didn't take that long because I basically just tweaked a standard wordpress template. I thought I might want to build my own from scratch but this seemed like a better way to get a decent looking site up in a...
Libertarian socialism – Wikipedia
I found this article Libertarian socialism Wikipedia [link] fairly engaging from the perspective of self-identification. I especially enjoyed this line in particular: 'This is sometimes characterized as a desire to maximize "free creativity" in a society in preference...
Christopher Alexander – Wikipedia
Heard a podcast discussing the ideas of Christopher Alexander [link] and started digging around for a wikipedia entry. It's surprising how little there is on this considering his ideas led directly to the development of wikipedia. The most descriptive article (in...
BLDGBLOG: The “Endless Accident Events” of Los Angeles
natecooper.net is making it appear as if all I've been reading is cracked.com and BLDGBLOG. Could be worse I guess. BLDGBLOG's discussion of "extreme signage" [link] does pique my interest. I don't know if I fully agree with the assessment of this fountain as "public...
The 8 Shittiest Jobs Of All Time Literally
Another amusing article From Cracked.com. Gotta love any top # list where each topic is sub-headed with: "So Where Does the Poop/Pee Come in?"
The New York Coffee Bag
Coffee is a singular experience in New York. Though I have yet to experience the perfect cup of Joe here at the very least it is plentiful and there is a fair amount of independent shops -- far fewer per-capita than should be but fair none-the-less. There is, however,...
Unique Design for Eureka Carpark Melbourne
Eric mentioned to me the unique design ofthis parking garage in Melbourne it's sort of hard explaining verbally but very interesting to look at. Basically directions/signs for how to enter, exit and move around this parking garage are painted in such a way so that...
BLDGBLOG: The Psychiatric Infrastructure of the City
On a recent visit to Boston I found myself looking for the healing scars of the massive Big Dig. Mostly I was interested in the city spaces created above the buried freeway. BLDGBLOG has an interesting article [link] that wonders how the psychology of individuals in a...
Conservative Views of Atheism
Started reading this entry in conservapedia about Atheism [link]. It sort of boils the blood but at the same time there is something comforting about this contrarian view. Perhaps I'll write more later but I certainly encourage you to explore.
How to Perform a Tracheotomy
McSweeny's has a great piece by Sarah Walker "Assure Susan that you are a doctor and be sure to have made up a doctor badge that you can show her. It should be made of pure gold with something like five snakes engraved on it. You probably aren't a doctor. If you are,...
Review of Dark Knight
There is a scene (and mind you; spoilers are coming) in the new Batman movie that perfectly captures the zeitgeist of modern America. Two ferries are filled with passengers escaping from Gotham city. One ferry is filled with prisoners from the city jail and the other...
What I’m Reading at 1 A.M.
Anti-aliasing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [link] Don't ask why. The reasons are far too complex for me to understand.