Digital Whittler

Shea Shackelford produced the following story for the much-hoped-for podcast that we’re trying to put together as a demo project for the Center for Community Change. I think it’s pretty damned good.
Listen Here

Now this is something I could have used at various points in my career. It’s always good to have a starting place for those times when you need to code a tricky regular expression.
Regular Expression Library

So I’m in Richmond, VA for a couple of days for work. We just got done teaching a day-long course and we’ve wandered up the street to the Capital Ale House. In addition to over 200 beers they offer free Wi-Fi. So, I’m blogging, checking email, catching up with news (Tarantino is going to write […]

Craig’s list is simply amazing. Today we were cleaning out some closets. We decided on several things that we flat out wanted to just get rid of including a CD player, an electric blanket, some snorkel gear, and an area rug. So I posted 4 notices on Craigs List. And within an hour and a […]

This is a pretty cool Java applet that lets you visualize the popularity of any given name in the last 100 years. My favorite: Porfirio. Apparently no one has been named Porfirio since the 1950s
The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager

It looks like the NYT Op-Ed page is getting a new resident, and I think I’m going to like the change.
John Tierney, a self-proclaimed libertarian, is taking over the spot left vacant by the leaving of William Safire.
From the WaPo article:

Editorial Page Editor Gail Collins says she likes Tierney’s “contrarian” approach. She says he was […]

So, the Washington Post has a format for their obituaries that lists the deceased name followed by a one or two word description of their profession, avocation, hobby, etc., followed by the actual obit. For example:
Joe Moneybags
Banker
or
Jane Law
Lawyer
or
Thomas Edison
Inventor
Edward Patten, a member of Gladys Knight & The Pips, died last Friday at the age of […]

Using Web APIs to build completely client-side applications.