Month: January 2008

As long as we’re talking about interesting magazines . . . This month’s issue of Harper’s has a short piece about George Bush’s misunderstanding of his favorite painting: So Bush’s inspiring, proselytizing Methodist is in fact a horse thief fleeing from a lynch mob. It seems a fitting marker for the Bush presidency. Bush has…

links for 2008-01-28 Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. screen/video capture and sharing. (tags: screencast video communication)

Bigger perhaps than the NYTimes dropping its paywall . . . The Atlantic Monthly has made its awesome, super-amazing content available for free on its website. This is one of the magazines that Hugh McKenna, my high-school English teacher, suggested I subscribe to (the other was Harper’s). I’ve been reading them ever since and subscribing…

Finally starting to really get omnifocus. It’s not easy but looks like it could be worth the effort.

Wish OS X’s PHP installation had the GD library installed by default. Every few months it seems I’m recompiling PHP.

I want a president . . . I want a president who understands that his responsibility is to articulate a vision and encourage others to achieve it; who holds himself, and those around him, to the highest ethical standards; who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those…

having people over for dinner again this evening. Thinking of making Curry Chicken Pot Pie: http://tinyurl.com/3btryc

links for 2008-01-26 About the Center for Neighborhood Technology Since 1978, the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) has worked to show urban communities locally and all across the country how to develop more sustainably. (tags: environment green planning local) EveryBlock: A news feed for your block. EveryBlock filters an assortment of local news by location…

EveryBlock: A news feed for your block. EveryBlock filters an assortment of local news by location so you can keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city.

About the Center for Neighborhood Technology Since 1978, the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) has worked to show urban communities locally and all across the country how to develop more sustainably.