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So an unnamed member of an unnamed government contacted the Wikimedia Foundation recently, asking for staff guidance on setting up a wiki so that unnamed citizens of the unnamed jurisdiction could collaborate on new laws. Since the staff mainly handle the operational aspects of the various wikis, the question got passed off to the volunteers [...]

The divalicious Kristie passes along a great piece in the New Yorker offering a different contrast between Clinton and Obama: their concept of the office of President. The Political Scene: The Choice: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Just as the pain and swelling from the one tooth subsided, another tooth elsewhere in the mouth started making trouble. In a lovely little bit of placement, though, this one is on the jaw itself and has a sharp edge that scrapes up the left side of my tongue. Scraped-up tongues tend to swell, and [...]

I just can’t focus on a damned thing, thanks to all manner of random activity in my brain today. Hopefully I can alleviate this by dumping core here. I am semi-secretly stoked that geekslut has returned to blogging. Wikipedia’s completed its upgrade to v1.5, thank God. Now I can breathe easily and go back to [...]

Two of ‘em, referred to me by others. Juan Cole throws down. Day-um. I almost feel sorry for Jonah Goldberg. Why hate-crime laws are necessary, or “some motives are more reprehensible than others, fuckheads”. (The word “fuckheads” never appears in that [excellent] post. i just like it.)