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• Industrial Fire Burns in SoCal

  Tue Jun 26, 2007
  • My eyewitness account: It was dumping out enough smoke that from twenty miles away, I assumed it was a storm cloud coming in. Thus concludes the greatest eyewitness commentary in the history of mankind.

• 'Sexsomnia' - Real Disorder or Poor Excuse?

  Fri Oct 27, 2006
  • Has happened to me too. It's not very common -- perhaps two or three times a year -- but it happens nonetheless. There is no doubt in my mind that this is real. I will also ditto all of the comments that this is no excuse for rape. (Well, duh.)

• Sociologist Will Spend Three Years in Cave

  Fri Oct 13, 2006
  • I pity all of the, "What, have you been living in a cave?" jokes he will have to endure once he gets out.

• Piracy and the Google/YouTube Deal

  Thu Oct 12, 2006
  • I'm not so sure, Aaron. Let me start by saying that I'm a Google fanboy. I recognize that I am unreasonable when it comes to anything Google does. I'm a zealot. That said, let's look at this from another (completely speculative) angle.

• Google Reader FTW

  Wed Oct 11, 2006
  • Is Grandma a user role for Google Reader? God, I hope not. I hope they didn't design with "bobocopy's grandma" in mind. But I do hope that, in general, people who are not as adept as you and me can use the reader and still feel comfortable.

• Where the Rubber meets "Roe": The pro-life case for abortion

  Tue Oct 3, 2006
  • Some of Ryan's allies worried that morning-after pills might prevent embryos from implanting, so he omitted such pills from his bill. They opposed requiring private insurers to offer contraceptive coverage, so he took that out, too.

• Google Reader FTW

  Wed Oct 11, 2006
  • @Bwana: First and foremost, let me start by saying, very good points, all around. My philosophies re: usability come in very large part from what Joel on Software has to say, and what the guys over at 37Signals have to say. Some examples:

• Google Reader FTW

  Wed Oct 11, 2006
  • Respectfully gonna disagree with the two of you. The old reader: You log in. You have, on the left, a "river" of all your feeds. In the main area, the most recent feed. You can iterate through using space and Shift + space.