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This site aggregates much of my activity around the web for your reading convenience.
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March 10, 2010
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Large Hadron Collider will be shut down "for a year" -- is it due to paradox-cancelling Higgs boson from the future?

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Rachel Corrie

Watching Amy Goodman interview Rachel Corrie's parents this morning was a real downer.

» http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/10/family_of_slain_us_peace_activist

I'm cynical enough not to have any real hope that they're going to win their lawsuit against the IDF -- I figure that's pretty damn unlikely -- but that just makes it more poignant: like their daughter, they're trying to stop something even though it's obviously too big for them to take on alone.
March 09, 2010
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Beautiful digital wall display at @Panic, a Mac software firm -- what the agile folks call an "Information Radiator."

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He's totally over the top, but I find @gilesgoatboy both entertaining and inspirational. On getting a programming job:

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A critical look at mainstream corporate-supported environmental groups finds they're less green than one might hope.

March 08, 2010
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Sign, missing cat; Avenue B.

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Interesting article on teacher effectiveness; I'll recommend Lemov's book to my teacher in-law.

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Wonderful glimpse into the early growth and financials of a European web startup -- big thank you to the @Mite team!

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A bit more research shows that last night's swapped photo is a known bug that TwitPic promised to fix -- a year ago...

March 07, 2010
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Alex biking across the Columbia campus.

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Alex at Columbia sculpture garden, above Amsterdam at 116th.

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This is the other picture of Alex I tried to upload earlier.

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@TwitPic fail: I posted earlier, but what shows up in my account is someone else's (incomplete) photo, not mine!

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Morningside Park; Columbia University buildings look out over Harlem.

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Taking Alex's bike out for the first time this year.

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Parklet outside new building at 110th and Morningside.

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No hard news here, but a nice glimpse into the still-buzzing NYC startup scene.

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Another hurdle for web developers: "Your international web app gets ethnicity wrong." /by @maxklein

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Entertaining (if not convincing) reading of "mathematical messages" hidden in Alice in Wonderland. /via HN

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Some possible good news about international views of gender and birth ratios buried at the end of this Economist piece.

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