One of my guilty pleasures is reading the Joel on Software forums. In general, the participants are pretty bright, and they tend to have a decently broad technical background (web 2.0 experts mingle with low-level asm/C guys like me). There was an interesting thread titled Pushing open source, where the guy thinks about pushing more [...]
broken giants, (the big island of) Hawaii Occasional west to northwest winds At 15 to 25 mph can be expected Near the foothills through 4 PM. Gusts to 40 mph are possible In normally windy spots… Nowcast as of 1:48 PM MST on November 07, 2008
Saint-Exupery, Poincenot, Fitzroy, Patagonia, Argentina Mile a minute wind gusts in the Fort Devil-may-care leaves dust frozen earth Dreams of Patagonian springs years ago
Sweet whimsy rules the day.
jack o’bamalantern, Madison, WI The Mad City is bustling with Obama fever, which isn’t too surprising, given that it’s a uni town. What surprised me, though, was seeing the plethora of Obama signs out in farm country. Becca and I went for a ride in Black Earth, where I think every grain silo in Wisconsin [...]