Saturday at 12:23 pm April 27th, 2013 Maxistentialism
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Maxistentialism: ThinkProgress: Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn (R) today introduced an...

ThinkProgress:

Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn (R) today introduced an amendment to the Marketplace Fairness Act that would end the practice of allowing professional sports leagues to qualify as tax-exempt organizations, a move that would hit leagues like the National Football League, the…

Wow, one of my home state senators is doing something that makes me like him for once. 

Thursday at 7:40 pm January 10th, 2013
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Howard [Strauss], who died in 2005, was the polar opposite of Bill Gates—in outlook as well as income. Howard thought the computer should be adapted to the individual and not the other way around. One size fits one. The programs he wrote for me were molded like clay to my requirements—an appealing approach to anything called an editor.
— John McPhee’s article in the January 14th issue of The New Yorker is fascinating (but alas, behind the paywall). It’s mostly about the various ways of organizing and structuring long articles he’s written for the magazine, but also includes a section on a text editor, Kedit, that he’s used since the early 80s, with a great deal of customization from a colleague at Princeton. Well worth the read, if you can get to it. 
Thursday at 11:00 pm December 6th, 2012
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While this is pretty cool, I am so glad we don’t have room for Tim to keep his drum set in the apartment.