I was inspired to tell you that the sun in the desert looks like a fluffy explosion. I thought you might appreciate it. I did a drawing but it became a photograph when I turned my back…

One Day 1 of Sarah Palin’s candidacy for the Vice Presidency, was it really necessary for the New York Times to use a photo cropped such that the Governor appears nude? (And no, I’m not going to give it more traction here.)I appreciate the fact that Ms…

So we end up going down a country road to a yard sale where this Monty Hall-esque seller was more intent on getting rid of his stuff than making any money. Certain items had money squirreled away within them (paper money, not coins, he insists). If you buy those items you could end [...]

Geezer-Dingbat vs. Obama-Biden

I was personally offended by McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin. She strikes me as the worst kind of token. In feminist literature there is the notion that mainstream society believes that only when a woman has proved herself as a sexual object (beauty queen) and a wife and mother, can she be taken seriously in power circles of the male-dominated society. And then only in narrowly-defined roles. Palin strikes me as this kind of token woman - one that would appeal to John McCain’s generational mind-set. Some of the talking heads in the media have compared her to Dan Quayle, but to do so really does a disservice to Dan Quayle, who had more than 10 years’ experience in the House and Senate before becoming George the First’s VP.

I leave today. Yes, TODAY!

I’m waaaay over-packing. I keep taking things out of my suitcases, and then putting them back in.

Help me edit what’s currently in my suitcases.

Seizing the opportunity, Mang jumps out the window of the party room and makes a mad dash into narnia.

This simple video explains the path for the money for the Stand Up To Cancer initiative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHqAU-j7NaI

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Cottage, originally uploaded by miserychick.

Cottage, originally uploaded by miserychick.

Photograph taken by Raphael Martin

I learned about the process of rolling and annealing (def: reducing stress within metal by heating to a prescribed temperature).

Whenever you want to melt scraps, you use a higher temperature. However in annealing, you want to use a “feather flame” (please see diagram below), and when the medal reaches a certain glow, you cool it and pickle it. After the pickling process, the metal has to be completely dry and free from oxidation, you roll it.

Most designs either require a flat shape or cylindrical shape in order to form wire. Always roll in one direction, and about five times. If you’re working with purer or softer metals, you can stretch it a little. Find the “dead pass” (just a little resistance), and adjust metal through teeth of the rolling machine. In keeping the electrons even within the metal, you have to be mindful of rolling in one direction. Watch out for cracks, but don’t confuse them with air bubbles.

Recently I ran into some XSS (Cross Site Scripting) restrictions:
Security Error: Content at http://foo/bar may not load data from http://bar/foo
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Access to restricted URI
denied" code: "1012" nsresult: "0x805303f4 (NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI)"
location: "http://bar/foo Line: 47"]
Javascript on host B was running from host A and doing an XHTTPRequest request to host B. So what [...]

Recently I ran into some XSS (Cross Site Scripting) restrictions:
Security Error: Content at http://foo/bar may not load data from http://bar/foo
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Access to restricted URI
denied" code: "1012" nsresult: "0x805303f4 (NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI)"
location: "http://bar/foo Line: 47"]
Javascript on host B was running from host A and doing an XHTTPRequest request to host B. So what [...]

Today marks the three year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Rather then dwell on what has not been done, what is far from being accomplished and the devastation that still plaques the city, my approach to today is more about celebrating the positive energy that has come out of tragedy. I do this not to forget [...]

After my unpleasant experience hacking up a WordPress plugin to display location within my blog, I decided to write my own Fire Eagle badge that isn’t associated with any particular service or CMS. Here is how it works: You authenticate against Fire Eagle, I give you a few lines of HTML, you insert the [...]

For those who haven’t heard, John McCain selected Sarah Palin as his sidekick.
Many tout her as inexperienced.
DailyKos has touted her as Punky Brewster, while Wonkette touted her a snow dwarf, and a hot lego.
[ via DailyKos ]
watch the video

At the 2:55-ish mark Palin responds to Kudlow’s queries about her interest in being vp by saying [...]

This summer, thanks to the wonderful Sandi Carroll, I had the opportunity to collaborate with the good folks at Mudbone.

It’s an interesting contrast that I’m following the deterioration of the political system in Bangkok while watching all the hopeful speeches from the DNC at the same time (literally, using two browser windows).
Protesters in Bangkok have occupied the Government House since early Tuesday in an effort to depose the current PM and his government. [...]

Today marks the three year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Rather then dwell on what has not been done, what is far from being accomplished and the devastation that still plaques the city, my approach to today is more about celebrating the positive energy that has come out of tragedy. I do this not to forget the disaster, but rather to recognize the resilience of an amazing community who, left to basically fend for themselves, has made tremendous progress. They said they would come back, they would rebuild - and they certainly are doing their best to do so.

To see examples of exciting projects happening in the ‘new’ New Orleans, visit social inovation organization Alldaybuffet’s New Orleans 100 Project, an initiative to “highlight and encourage discussion about 100 of the most innovative and world-changing ideas to take root in the city since Katrina.”

Also read my post on greensear.ch about sustainable re-building practices. Here is an excerpt:

Today marks the three year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall and devastating destruction of the city of New Orleans and the surrounding gulf coast region. As an outside observer, one who fell in love with the culture of this unique place from the first time I visited, it has been hard to watch the slow pace of recovery, to hear the heart breaking stories of the systemic failure of both national and local disaster relief and to realize that much of what the people there have had to endure post-Katrina simply never should have happened. However, in the midst of the chaos of recovery, something positive has started to become very clear; the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast region represents an historic opportunity to actually change the infrastructure of a city from the ground up, to do things differently and perhaps, with the correct combination of innovative ideas, sustainable practices and local involvement, to do them better.

I love that when I start typing “over capacity” Firefox 3 knows exactly what I want.

Just pipin’ up to say: Livejournal putting ads on my journal that I can’t even see is the suck. I don’t feel like hocking fantasy sports to my non-LiveJournal friends. Annoying. I’ve been considering going private LJ + public tumblr. Not sure yet.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand the need to make money. I just took it seriously when Brad said no ads, ever. I’ve been a paid member, but not since before Six Apart. Is worth it? ::shrug::

Yankees will drag you out of the stadium if you try to go to the bathroom during “God Bless America”: Cory Doctorow: “A man was dragged out of the stadium for daring to stand up and move around instead of singing a patriotic, religious song. I really like Tommy Smothers’s formulation of the principle…

Room for Forced Perspective 8

Room for Forced Perspective 9

Room for Forced Perspective 10

¡Ay, Que lastima! My 8th Grade Spanish students have been trying the upper limits of my patience, particularly one rather taxing teenager–Deb Webster (she has been acting utterly disturbed as of late, emotional problems perhaps?). It’s days like these that I yearn to revisit a simpler time, a time ten years ago when I made [...]

. . . on the 45th anniversary of MLK’s “I have a dream speech” ….

I believe this will be a moment we will remember for a long, long time…
Above everything else, with all the promises made, at the end of the DNC, Obama managed to inspire and motivate more than the 70,000+ people in [...]

Just a quick note to let you know that my book, Learning Processing, is now available for purchase. If you are local to NYC, you can buy the book at the NYU bookstore.
Amazon says “out of stock”, but I’m told by the publisher that this is an error and they do, in fact, [...]

In issue #4 Mang goes to narnia through the secret entrance across the street from the neon guitar. Mang’s phrenology reveals that he’s a jenky mixture of astro boy, heathcliff, popeye, huck finn and oliver twist. There’s 10 mo’ pages and a back cover coming up!

a few weeks ago, our office got broken into. among the things stolen was my ipod, a TV, and a custom dizzywood hoodie that sean made for all of us (because he loves us).
so, last night sean and I are in the mission, and we come across this fellow:

WEARING our hoodie! I thought for [...]

Today was the beginning of a new, small adventure. I was asked by my friend Megan to write for the site Greensear.ch, which is best known for its augmented Google search that donates with every use. They recently set up a collaborative blog for the front of their site and so me and a bunch [...]

The video below was created by myself and Mitch Said for JDub, an NYC record label, to help them pitch their artists at a sales conference. JDub represents artists such as Matisyahu, Golem, and Sway Machinery.
The purpose of the video was clear: showcase the label’s artists and their energy.
Check out the video for the final [...]

It’s symbolic, if coincidental, that tonight Barack Obama will accept the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States, on the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. The New York Times has a moving article today focusing on the handful of Democratic delegates who will be there tonight and who were also there for King’s famous speech on the National Mall on August 28th, 1963.From a practical standpoint, when it is so urgent to get the Republicans out of power before they further wreck the country, I am sorry it’s not Hillary up…

The Straight Man’s Guide to Getting Hit on by Gays: “1. This will probably never happen to you anyway, so stop being paranoid. Gays mostly stick to their own, and besides, you’re probably not attractive enough to get past our…

If you’re female, in your 20s or 30s and grew up in Manila or thereabouts, you might enjoy Divasoria. It’s funny, interesting, and brave—three of my favorite things in a personal blog, and far harder to pull off than most…