If you haven’t seen will.i.am’s inspiring viral video supporting Barack Obama, you might as well check it out (or hit it up here on YouTube):

Then reward yourself with this nice parody version, at the expense of John McCain (whom I respect for his personal sacrifices in the line of duty, but whose politics continues [...]

George Orwell warned us, in his “
Politics and the English Language,” as well as in his more famous work,
Ninteen Eighty-Four,
against the dangers of dressing up our language in euphemism and cluttering it
with cliche rather than simply saying what we mean.

“Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread
by imitation and [...]

I’ve been getting my feet wet with Zotero, an amazing extension for Firefox that lets you organize research materials from within your web browser. It has a ton of interesting features, many of which are documented in these nice screencast tutorials. Among other things, it allows you to organize your sources into non-exclusive [...]

I don’t think Haden, being pre-verbal, is ready for a blog yet, but you’re never too young to have your own domain name. Since Haden’s name (especially that spelling of it) isn’t as common as, say, mine is, I thought I’d nab two domains for him and point them, for now at least, at [...]

Please, oh please, don’t let Microsoft get its grubby hands on Yahoo! (and, thus, on Flickr). Details.