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  • In Case You’re reading this, Mom

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    The Onion has a hysterical article. Ev responds: What to do if your Mom discovers your blog…

  • Gone in Sixty Minutes

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    Brush with fame. Just saw Mike Wallace on the street. Thankfully, he didn’t know my name and had no camera crew with him. Man, is he tan. I’m talking George Hamilton tan. Either he’s on permanent vacation or he’s got liver failure.

  • Lunar Eclipse

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    I’ve taken a bunch of lunar eclipse pictures, listed here. Update: Thanks to Dave for the link to my (admittedly blury) pictures. My kids loved going out every five minutes to see if the moon was still there. Harris cried when it was “gone” until we showed him how it would come back (with a…

  • Correspondences off the air

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    Our group blog, Correspondences.org, has been off the air for a few days. It was a server crash due to a sun-spot related blackout. Really. (I admit that sounds a lot like “the dog ate my homework.”) It’s back with all the archives, but the MoveableType software is still not working. Thankfully, some nice folks from Six…

  • Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport

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    Vote Early, Vote Often… Dan Gillmor [via Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]reports that the EFF is taking an agressive court tactic to try to keep Diebold, “a company that sells disturbingly flawed electronic voting machines”  from blocking (via cease and desist orders) student websites which are posting Diebold’s internal documents that have leaked. The documents in question allege…