Jerimiah Wright
goes on the Bill Moyers show to explain himself more fully and with full context, then gives a few more interviews. The result: he gets accused by some on the left of being
vain and publicity-grasping. Meanwhile, others say Wright believes there are neurological differences between black people and white people because [...]

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The Vibram Fivefinger shoes arrived today so I put them on and took a short walk around the building. I wasn’t out particularly long — probably about fifteen minutes or so. But yes, they’re quite different.
First, though, I read the marketing copy. This is atrocious, and if I had to rely on that alone [...]

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I just purchased the new album (Just Us Kids) by my favorite singer/songwriter James McMurtry. I haven’t even listened to it yet, but I was reading about it on Wired just now and was surprised to read this:

The songwriter — who has been playing guitar since his father, novelist Larry McMurty, got him an [...]

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With the rise of cheap cameras and YouTube it’s more and more common to see video, talking commentary in the place of written text. There’s
Bloggingheads of course, and
TPM.tv.
My brother does a spot or two occasionally. And some mechanisms are even being developed for leaving video comments on blogs.
That’s fine for the [...]

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I’m certainly not anti-technology. I am after all a web developer. But I think there are a lot of things that we’ve done to ourselves to correct perceived deficiencies in how our bodies operate, creating new problems in the process. I’ve written before about my attempt to regain a
natural sleep pattern. Walking is apparently [...]

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