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The success of Dean's campaign isn't all about the money.

Why open-source and other volunteer projects can actually be wealthier than traditional corporations.

"Do you like November?" Becky asked. I didn't like last November: no work, many worries about my family, a dying grandmother, on top of the encroaching...

Why do conservatives and progressives talk past one another, not with one another?

Insights on management style, especially of a vastly distributed, volunteer project

"Any poet's existence is a sin, viz., the sin that one is writing poetry instead of living; that one occupies oneself with God and truth only...

"Come here often?" No, I think, it's been a long while. And it's funny that I've learned to hear that phrase as nothing but a pickup line;...

"Should a cassette fail to play properly, hold it flat in the palm of your hand, and slap it smartly against a hard, flat surface. If this does...

Fabulous essay/op-ed explaining the mindset one must approach any engineered endeavor

Here's the problem: It gets wearying sometimes, making meaning out of experience, and I am getting wary of the trap that Garrison Keillor laughs...

The author of Black Hawk Down weights in on whether it's important that WMDs are found.

The other day I pulled out some old notebooks, scrawlings I'd made while trying to make sense of my graduate Matrix Analysis course....

Last week I wrote an interactive, command line PHP interpreter, and I've decided to post the source code here. It's version 0.1, and it comes...

Walk as smoothly and steadily as possible, he says. Hold on to the bars if you need to, but you don't have to. Run when the belt starts to move...

"I'm a bit hungry." "I am too. D'you want to get something?" "Yeah. What are you in the mood for?" <silence> "Probably not the...

Up the hill, past the expensive housing developments, through dirt, gravel, and over rocks and ruts I shouldn't drive my car over, but do, carefully,...

"Young man," said Tolstoy, to an eager youthful reformer. "You sweat too much blood for the world. Sweat something for yourself first. If you...

This year, I completely forgot St. Patrick's day.

It was my birthday party. We were sitting in the hot tub at Dan's place, bathing in warmth, light conversation, candlelight, and the hint of...

Fred Rogers died of cancer early this morning. I only remember watching his show vaguely, on sick days and summers, but I think I recall that...

When I was a kid, I read the Great Brain books by J.D. Fitzgerald, stories of community life in Central Utah, mostly focusing around the antics...

"You're never closer to dead than you are at 3 am" wrote Ray Bradbury, but there's at least one morning I can think of which I was alive with...