music.metafilter.com: yet another way for MeFi to dominate your time online. You can listen and comment. There’s even a podcast feed.

After you hit the news reports, here is a quick summary (and more here) of the possible significance of a very important US Supreme Court decision, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (PDF).

Hot on the heels of their “defence” of (heterosexual) marriage, our friends in Washington have continued to pander to the worst of their constituencies by dragging out another favorite, election-year boogie man: the flag burning amendment. It failed in a shamefully close vote. The sixty-six who voted for it (including 14 who claim to be [...]

Can you tell I haven’t felt much like site tinkering of late? I’ve been getting hammered with comment spam for a while now. Back in late March, I tried maintaining a mirror blog in order to allow comments while I fixed (read: wasn’t bothering to fix) the problem here. But that wasn’t much of a [...]

There’s been plenty of speculation here and elsewhere that Google would start offering online apps that mirror the functionality of Microsoft Office. The first salvo has been launched with Google Spreadsheets. Not only does it give you online, sharable spreadsheets, it also imports and exports Excel format. Nice. I pulled in one that I use [...]