Blackboard, makers of a badly designed but incredibly popular Learning Management System (LMS) in use at about eighty percent of colleges in the USA, got a big smackdown on a slew of bogus patents they had been using to fend off competitors and stifle competition. This is a “non-final” decision, which means both parties have [...]

My friend Ray finished designing a site for Cool City Customs, a custom bike builder. Their site has a cool Flash-based feature that lets you create your own bike, and they’re having a contest and giving away a bike to the winner. So go there and vote for my bike! There’s no way to permalink [...]

I’ve never liked David Brooks, but I think his editorial today is particularly on point. Please, Hillary, just quit already.

Today is our thirteenth wedding anniversary. Yeah us: Left to right: Wheat, Haden, & Gina.

Barack Obama addresses the question of race and specific concerns about those sermons that are all the rage these days in this lengthy (40 minutes) speech. It starts off a little too straight but veers into some very interesting, nuanced, and sometimes quite brilliant directions. Via his campaign site (with full transcript) or directly at [...]