December 2008 archive

Hello Writing Resistance, My Old Friend

I've wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember. More or less. Sometimes I pursue other ambitions, but I keep coming back to the desire to write. Or at least, the desire to have written something. It would be great to have already written something brilliant and enjoy [...]

Ray LaMontagne: Empty

I'd never heard of Ray LaMontagne until Amazon recently confided in me that people frequently bought his latest album together with Martin Sexton's Solo. People that buy Martin Sexton albums obviously have the finest and most discerning tastes, so I sampled Gossip in the Grain and liked what I heard. Now I own all [...]

Begging Your Pardon on Begging the Question

I just wanted to state publicly my whole-hearted endorsement of the "wrong" use of the phrase, begging the question.
Have you heard this phrase? Do you have a self-righteous opinion about it? Then this post may make you angry. Please look away. If you're a potential new user of the term, read on [...]

Hamster on a Wheel

I did an hour and a half on the Nordic Track this weekend. One hour yesterday and a half hour today. In between the two sessions, I got this image in my head of a giant hand placing the ski machine in my basement, and me skiing in place for the amusement of [...]

More Clerkenwell: Kix, Terminally Ambivalent Over You

More from "The Real Tuesday Weld" (Stephen Coates):

The Real Tuesday Weld: Kix
(Doh! Embedding is disabled as of 29 November 2009, so you have to see it at YouTube. It's worth the trip. Great song and video. Added embeds of others below...)
Love the music and the video. This one has nine people listed for the [...]

Bathtime in Clerkenwell

Thanks, Dave Winer, for drawing my attention to this:

The Real Tuesday Weld: Bathtime in Clerkenwell
(Bummer. Embedding disabled as of 29 November 2009. See it at YouTube right this instant.)
It's so delightfully weird.
(I think by 30 seconds in, you'll either be hooked or can safely dismiss it.)
(Update: Should note that The Real Tuesday Weld is a [...]

Richard Stallman supports Creative Commons. Do you?

In a post about the relicensing option from the GNU Free Documentation License to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, Richard Stallman writes:

If a wiki site exercises the relicensing option, that entails trusting Creative Commons rather than the Free Software Foundation regarding its future license changes. In theory one might consider this a matter of concern, but I [...]