Ross Perot (I know! Crazy!) has a pretty good presentation on the budget difficulties that the US is likely to face over the next 75 years or so. Have a look, and celebrate our impending doom at the hands of old timers medical bills.

This is one of the most amazing things ever:Things are not as they seem in the 14th-floor apartment on upper Fifth Avenue. At first blush the family that occupies it looks to be very much of a type....But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets - messages, games and treasures - that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems ( Read more... )

Just about to sign off the computer for good. Heading off to Spain & Morocco for 2.5 weeks. See you guys in June!

Go here and help nominate jette for the LJ advisory board. She is an awesome woman and would do a great job.

alicetiara and I got tix! Didn't get in fast enough to get a room though (I guess the 3 person rooms went quickest), so we've got no place to stay yet. If anyone is looking for extra bodies to fill up a room, let me know. Otherwise it's time to investigate hotel options in the Catskills.

w00t!

Edit: At least for the moment, I've got a room booked at the ( Read more... )

I got 90% on this American Civic Literacy Quiz. How did you score?

Questions I got wrong: 2, 9, 19, 21, 36, 58 (terribly embarrassing this one)

Hey, check it out! I'm speaking at the O'reilly Open Source Conference in July on some stuff I'll be open sourcing from within Google. GXP is a templating system used to output XML/SGML markup (most often HTML). Used internally at google for many years, we are now open sourcing this tool for community use and development. GXP has the following ( Read more... )

I watched all 8 episodes of Lost Season 4 yesterday. 3 on the plane, and the rest when I got to the hotel. I'd been saving them up since the start of the season so I could binge. I didn't love them *quite* as much as I had hoped considering all my friends raves, but they were pretty damn good. Now I've gotta wait through the mid-season break ( Read more... )

TripIt is truly amazing. Every time you book some travel related thing online fwd the confirmation e-mails to plans@tripit.com and it will automatically make you a unified itinerary for your trip. It is awesome.

Go. Check it out now.

Just to kill the monotony of everyone on my friends list (save jette) having that "Blue on top, Red on bottom" thing going on....

60% John McCain
59% Rudy Giuliani
57% Chris Dodd
55% Dennis Kucinich
55% Mitt Romney
53% Ron Paul
53% Mike Gravel
51% Mike Huckabee
51% Barack Obama
50% Hillary Clinton
50% Bill Richardson
50% Joe Biden
46% John Edwards
44% Fred Thompson
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