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I’ve been trying to get back into cycling, not as an athlete — I’m no athlete — but as a commuter and for recreation.
This morning I found myself relating to issues brought up today in a New York Times’ article about Times Up! tactics and sites like MyBikeLane.com, which are responses to automobiles regularly disrespecting [...]

Tonight I quietly resurrected my attendance at Refresh DC. The first one I went to took place in a meeting room at the Library of Congress. My former colleague Jackson Wilkinson spoke at it, evangelizing Microformats — something he had recently encountered and gotten us both interested in as an extension of our shared [...]

A declaration that something is not political in itself will highlight the politics of the thing.
The New York Times quotes a Chinese Olympic official, Qu Yingpu, in response to the protests of the Olympic torch tour as saying “This is not the right time, the right platform, for any people to voice their political views.”
His [...]

It has been hard to write.
Many drafts with not just incomplete thoughts, but incomplete sentences, sit neglected in the queue right now.
In just this past week, I’ve been paying attention to Eliot Spitzer’s resignation from the office of governor in my home state; the security culture here in Washington as more CCTVs go up, as [...]

The only thoughts I can finish these days seem to be belated ones. Here I am slightly expanding on a “tweet” of mine in reaction to the news of arch-conservative William F. Buckley passing away.
Mostly fond and polite remembrances were aired across the media.
But in an often included common clip, which I heard it on [...]