June 2010

We need folks to be on the lookout for suspicious activity along the trail, and if you see anyone out there with loppers or a saw. If you do, call 911 to report it and call MPRB at 612-230-4900. Take a picture if you are able. Please exercise caution – a person who deliberately kills […]

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Time Magazine iPad/Tablet Demo. minusmanhattan: This looks very cool. Very cool app built by Time Magazine. As I watched the demo, I couldn’t help but wonder what the production costs are for creating all that interactive content. Surely it’s streamlined. And I’m guessing Time is doing a lot of it already on their web site

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USA vs. Algeria 1-0 2010 South Africa GOOOOLLLL- spanish commentator Landon Donovan’s game winning goal with commentary in Spanish. Soooooo much more exciting. No comparison to the call in english. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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That’s Mike Keliher (@mjkeliher) on the roof at the Fast Horse Sausage Party. He did not jump. And I think that’s John Reinan, belly laugh laughin’. UPDATE: Here’s the photo Mike took while I took my photo: And then, there is this photo. I’ll try harder to look like an idiot next time:

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That is the “Metrics Summary” for clicks from the urls I shorten using the bit.ly url shortener service. That BIG bar there is from one of my tweets about a BP gas station sign that got retweeted a lot (analysis here). There has to be a name for that kind of a graph. I call

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Today, I ran twice as slow as the world’s fastest mile! I started exercising again after a 10 year pause, and decided to create a goal, thinking it would be help keep me motivated. I wanted to keep it simple and practical and wanted it to have something to do with running a mile around

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