A couple of weeks ago at yoga, I told the teacher how much I hated the class, how much rage and resistance I had to the exercises, and I said she was cruel. A brunette in the class agreed with me. She’d found it difficult too. She also found herself filled with rage. We ended up raging for an ...

All right, let's wrap this all up with some pictures (below) closing thoughts on the NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship red carpet/draw party last night. First, job well done to Jon Miller of NBC for growing this event to what it is. This was easily the biggest red carpet crowd with the most e...

I spent the weekend in DC at TransparencyCamp, an event modeled after BarCamp focused on government transparency and open access to sources of federal data (largely through APIs and web services). Down the street, a social-media savvy conference called PowerShift convened over 12,000 of the nation&#...

Grilled, seared, or baked in the oven, caramelized lemons are a revelation, says danieljdwyer. “In the parts of the world that have been growing lemons for a millennium or more, raw lemon is basically unthinkable,” says danieljdwyer. “Outside of lemonade, I can’t think of any...

Hello World.  After a bit of a break . . . THE INDIA DECLAIR SHOW . . . is back and roaring!!! Hello, is the World a complete total . . . without a doubt . . . jacked up mess?!!!    The rotating orbs of maniacal mania never seem to take a break.  Break . . . hell they are spinning faster than e...

*siiiiigh*  It has been a long week. A super long week. Dave was sick last weekend and the kids have been sick all week. (I never did catch it!) Ellen's feeling pretty well, but the boys are not happy campers. Poor Isaiah - when he gets sick the world seems to come crashing down. I cancele...

Kenneth Wu is working hard to make it happen. A Trees and Us podcast....

Coming back stronger than Gillberg, it's (*80's Vince McMahon voice*) RANDOMANIA 3!  Sorry about my absence last week, but I was too discouraged to write after the "Cancel" incident, then news happened that totally ruined a huge part of my rantings, so I decided to say "F it."  Hey. it's better t...

Sorry for all the Knowles coverage but this had to be posted. I can’t talk right now. Sez Michael from The Cynical Ones: Oh joy, someone has combined two of my favorite people: God and Beyonce! This is some chuuch I can jig to. I don’t know if this is preacher strategy to let the Saturda...

This is really cool - new Federal spending, according to the recent stimulus bill, will need to be exposed through an RSS feed. This means, in theory, that as new spending is approved, we can all receive notification in our blogs… or better yet, since these updates will contain structured data...