Archive for February, 2008

Blogging from MIX08!

I will be blogging from MIX08 in Las Vegas all next week. This is my first MIX. Really looking forward to it!

Posted on 29-February-2008 at 16:51 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Software Design, Technology, Tools, Travel · Tagged with: 

Pharyngula

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
A truly delightful find! I spent this entire evening reading about the hilarious saga of PZ and Expelled (read the responses! esp. #90  
Tonight I added pharyngula to my blogroll (in place of the disappointing “The Future and You” which, along with it’s now-weekly podcast, has become very unremarkable).

Posted on 18-February-2008 at 21:19 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Only in the USA, Religion, Science

Goodby meebo. Enter Digsby.

Having long been a meebo fanboy, this is not without some twangs of guilt. I’ve found a better multiprotocol IM client.  Meebo was a huge improvement over the multiple-client alternative.

Now in private beta is my new fav, Digsby.  It’s much more powerful and configurable than meebo. One major annoyance with meebo: it did not have [...]

Posted on 13-February-2008 at 15:39 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Tools

“United” States of America

The root of most disunity in the US, I believe, is firmly grounded in the data shown by this map. Every time I come across this, it never ceases to amaze and amuse. It presents many avenues of analysis, but any careful analysis must first recognize the shortcomings of the data visualization. A couple [...]

Posted on 10-February-2008 at 14:35 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Only in the USA, Religion