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We’re looking for a web designer and a systems/db person available soon, for paid work on a project that would last through Election Day. (If it goes well, the project might continue after Nov. 4th, but think of election day as the deadline.)
It hasn’t been green-lighted yet; it partly depends on how quickly we [...]

How hard would it be to make a distorted map of the United States in which all the state borders are shown, but with the states shrunk or expanded to have areas proportional to their populations? In other words, like this map from FiveThirtyEight.com…

…but with each state re-sized to visually represent its electoral college weight.
Naturally, [...]

This is for open-source techie friends of mine who read this blog:
The Mozilla Corporation is looking to hire a build engineer. If you’re interested, and you know me personally, please reply privately to me, and I’ll give them your name along with my recommendation (I assume if you and I know each other, then [...]

This post isn’t really for a general audience; it’s for friends and acquaintances who’ve had trouble keeping up with my peregrinations (and who have let me know this in increasing numbers over the last month ).
I moved to from San Francisco New York in January 2008. Sort of. What really happened was that [...]

If you’re looking for office space in New York City — as an individual or a company — consider joining forces with New Work City:

Tony Bacigalupo, who is putting together NWC, recently wrote this:
We’re looking for an anchor tenant to join forces with. Ideally, this anchor tenant would be a growing company in an existing space that’s looking [...]

There’s a particularly insidious kind of comment spam nowadays, one that cannot be defeated by automated measures such as captcha. I’ve been noticing more and more of it on QuestionCopyright.org, and I’m sure other web site admins are experiencing the same wave.
I don’t know if this phenomenon has a name yet; perhaps you can [...]

It’s over.
I don’t mean the Democratic Primary, I mean the general election. The whole thing. Barack Obama is going to walk over John McCain like a piece of gum on the sidewalk.

Why?
Watching John McCain speak tonight, I was reminded of a principle my Go teachers often mentioned: don’t make a move to which [...]

My favorite political blog, TalkingPointsMemo, is usually insightful on policy, and even more so on politics. But what really distinguishes it from the competition is the quality of its writing, even in short, ephemeral posts. For example, this is from an item posted today:

“Many of our foreign policy thinkers seem to be developing [...]

I had no idea Brian Fitzpatrick was behind me. Ben Collins-Sussman did, but apparently he wasy too busy filming to shout a warning. Thanks, man. I’ll remember this.

I just sent this letter to New Scientist magazine; no idea if they’ll print it or not, so I’m posting it here too, as several people have recently expressed interest in this idea:
James Love’s proposal for cash prizes to replace today’s patent monopolies (“Fair prices, fair profit”, page 24, Nov. 10-16 New Scientist Special Issue) [...]