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Hunter, over at DailyKos, has found a great post about the whole silliness that’s going on in Kansas from The American Street. I’ve only briefly visited modern Kansas, but the Kansas of my imagination is a fiercely exotic ocean, a warm and savage sea richer than any place still extant. Try mentioning the magic word [...]

Philly Future is running a Q&A with Dianah Neff, the City of Philadelphia’s CIO, on the Wireless Philadelphia initiative. If you aren’t familiar with WP, the city is planning on creating a municipal WiFi network over the entire 135 square miles of Philadelphia with the intention of providing cheap internet connectivity to underserved neighborhoods and [...]

We just sat down in our seats at Hammerstein and it is a great venue. Can’t wait for this. UPDATE: What a fantastic show. I’d never been to Hammerstein before but it is nearly an ideal venue. We were in the upper mezzanine but still had a perfect view with padded seats, wait service, and [...]

Great weekend. Last night I managed to score a ticket for the sold out Ben Folds show at the Electric Factory off craigslist. It’s clear that this new band is still in the formative stages and there were some flubs, but the energy was good, the crowd was good, and they played a really great [...]

Via Political Wire and David Sirota: “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] [...]

Where’s the outrage? Where are the journalistic investigations? Where the hell is the US Congress? During the previous administration (which if you didn’t know, is responsible for the current energy crisis) there were investigations of every single happening in the Clinton White House. In fact, the same wingnuts who made the federal goverment spend millions [...]

I’m starting a new feature here on SkaroffBlog. It’s going to be an entry dedicated to miscellaneous, interesting, controversial, or just cool links that I want to feature but am too lazy to give a write up to. New one each week and here’s the inaugural thread. Delay Rankings. US real wages fall at fastest [...]

First of all I’ve completely overhauled the blog template to present something much more readable. I liked the minimalism of the old template but on my rapidly failing CRT in my bedroom some of the text wasn’t even visible against black background. Since I’m still lacking a real logo I’ve moved Homer over to the [...]

While I have some reservations about both Disney and Walden Media, the classic Christian allegory, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is coming to the big screen. You can view the trailer here and it looks pretty cool.

I’m testing out Blogger’s new mobile blogging service which allows you to post text and images to your blog using your cell phone. This picture was just taken with my camera phone and uploaded using the fantastic Chatter Email client. UPDATE: Well it took a couple of tries to get everything right, but it seems [...]