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Clay Shirky made a long blog post that’s now catching the usual attention from Boing Boing and Smart Mobs et al. In Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody, he discusses the role that sitcoms have played in American leisure time, and how that role is gradually being replaced by more participatory endeavors [...]

Yes, we had an earthquake last night. It woke us both up, shaking the bed and rattling windows and doors. (The windows were rattling as though a strong gust had hit them, but then again the interior doors were rattling just as hard. Plus, shaking bed.) A couple drawers shimmied open. No damage for us, [...]

It’s even written in the stars.

As you may have heard, Wikimedia Foundation wikis (including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikibooks) now have the “unified login” feature enabled for users with the sysop bit. UL is the feature formerly known as “single-user login” (SUL), and it allows eligible users of one wiki to log onto any other WMF wiki with the same username [...]

Still here, just busybusybusy with work and school and chorus and Wikipedia-related things. Posts to come later on today and tomorrow, as I have time to write them. (This post’s title is an homage to the song that’s been kicking around my head all weekend. In my head, though, it’s the climax of a rockin’ [...]