Uneasy Rhetoric

Hacking Netflix posts an interesting thought: what if Netflix partnered with a dating company and connected people who liked the same kind of movies?
Answer: even if they could always agree on what movie to watch, they’d find something else to argue about.
I like the Netflix service, and the friends stuff is okay too, but [...]

It isn’t a secret, but I’ve never really had the opportunity to write something here about a sport, er, “competition,” I follow closely enough to really “get”: NASCAR. Despite the fact that it is ecologically horrid and more conservative than any other sport, possibly including golf, I like it.
But what’s getting me to post [...]

A few days ago, Carl posted about the Epic Tower, another Libeskind-designed tower planned for downtown Sacramento, apparently for the corner of 10th and J Streets. Despite my past quibbling and lack of cheerleading, I will say that just about anything would be an improvement for that dank row of decrepit buildings lining both [...]

Find out what your federal Senators and Representatives are up to. Plogress is a WordPress-based multi-blog that looks like it tracks legislative activity for each Senator and Representative at the federal level. (Thanks to Marnie at Ext337, who has a new domain!)
It isn’t obvious right away how to get the RSS feeds for each [...]

I dislike it when famous people with zero credibility try to co-opt important issues of the day for no purpose other than their personal aggrandizement (as opposed to non-famous people with zero credibility - like bloggers). I’m speak of course about Lyndon Larouche, perennial candidate and tin-foil hat conspiracist.
As I was enjoying a warm [...]