What do you want in a news service?

Just today, Slate ran an article about Michael Crichton’s fifteen-year-old prediction of mass-media extinction. The resulting story was interesting, but the reader-response question at the end caught my eye: What do you want in a news service? I was slightly surprised to realize that this question had been percolating for a while [...]

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Picture time!

Brian and I spent some of last weekend out and about in the lovely Juneau weather (it was only mostly cloudy).  He took a bunch of pictures, some of which even had people in them!  Well, “person”, singular:

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As serene and contemplative as I look, here, you’d probably never guess [...]

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Let’s Say I Come Visit Your House

A response to Let’s Say I Break Into Your House.
Recently the issue of illegal immigration seems to be causing a lot of strife among Americans of different opinions. Some Americans are angry that the United States, one of the richest nations in the world, is trying to make it harder for people born in [...]

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A cause for celebration

I come in to work this morning, and there’s a folder sitting on my desk with our company health care logo on it. Given that it’s plan renewal season, I pick it up, and, with the care and attention usually given to a live explosive, gingerly open to the “Highlights of your Health Care Coverage” [...]

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On the latest gaming buzz

Gamer or no, I’ll admit that the Grand Theft Auto series has never held much appeal for me.  I’m not certain exactly why; I like sandbox gameplay, generally speaking, and I don’t really care about the violent content – I’ve known people who played it entirely for the purpose of listening to the hilarious [...]

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