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WordPress is fine and all, but I’ve been dying to run a site on the Squarespace platform. Squarespace is extrodinary, an easy-to-use system with a lot of customization options. Particularly if you’re a bit code-savvy – I spent the last week building my HTML/CSS/Dreamweaver repetoire, now I’m extremely pleased to be running an entirely new [...]


There’s a display box that I walk by every other day in a busy student center building here. It’s a lighted display box, and inside is some information about the anthropology department or something (it changes every semester or so). The light is operated by an easily-accessible button, and as such, is switched from on [...]


People like me love to see the way conversations evolve over topics like Facebook vs. Myspace. One conversation I’ve been interested in lately involves points illustrated by Danah Boyd and Robert Scoble, with Danah highlighting FB’s not-so-perfect move away from privacy, and Scoble arguing for a more open FB.
It’s fascinating to me to see two [...]