Take 150 g flour and 1c water and 1/4 tsp yeast. Mix well, leave overnight ( Read more... )

Off to Hungary this evening. Be back in two weeks.

To: TSA-ContactCenter@dhs.gov ( Read more... )

Either it has always been unsafe to allow liquids on planes, or something has changed such that it is was previously safe but is now unsafe, or it has always been and remains safe to allow liquids on planes. If it was always unsafe, then DHS should have banned liquids earlier. If it is safe, then liquids should not be banned. If something has ( Read more... )

The Open Planning Project has hired me to write Free Software for them. I start in mid-September. It's a bunch of Zope and Plone stuff, which I have mixed feelings about. One one hand, Python is pretty good. On the other hand, Zope is pretty awful. On the third hand, we'll be improving Zope. So I guess we'll see ( Read more... )

All the recipients of Bill Gates' largesse will be obliged to share their findings, even if they had been working on competing projects.

No wonder he can't bear to work for Microsoft anymore.

We're holding Milk and Cookies at our place at 3pm on Sunday, July 30 ( Read more... )

"The worst tyrannies were the ones where a government required its own logic on every embedded node." --Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky

Ask Bono to help fight DRM.

For the purpose of general discussion, systems, processes, and principles are the only things worth arguing about. Individual incidents are only worthwhile when they expose cracks in or between systems ( Read more... )

I was at the 5th Ave street fair the other day, and I saw a T-shirt which said:

Building strong communities through dramaOf course, I immediately assumed it was a Livejournal T-shirt ( Read more... )