On Beer, Wine, Mead, and Sake
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Also known as: David&8217;s Guide to Getting Drunk in Style....
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Tinkering Before Millions (VIDEO)
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A talk I gave at the Peninsula Linux Users&8217; Group1 about the history of PBworks....
Continue readingTERRIBLE UI @ Hotel Gotico: Elevator
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Continue readingPerill de Caigudes? Or Breakdancing?
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Continue readingL0K8 – A Simple Location Service For Twitter
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This weekend I banged out a very simple location service called <a href="http://l0k8.com/" target="self">L0K8</a>. It consists of a small 1.1MB Windows download. You install & run, it pops up a web page, you give it your twitter username & password,...
Continue readingEssence of Life
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Continue readingBoingo Wireless: Astoundingly Confident & Poor
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When I was stuck in Boston&8217;s Logan International Airport for a few hours waiting for a flight, I decided I ought to get some work done; I popped open my laptop to see if I could spot a free network. Signed onto &8220;loganwifi&8221; and got a pa...
Continue readingThoughts on Architecture
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written during an april 2008 trip to boston...
Continue readingMapping the Internet
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With only about 50% of PBwiki&8217;s traffic coming from North America and with preliminary benchmarks showing 3+ second page load times in Paris, I&8217;ve been thinking a bit about how to make the PBwiki experience snappy for people around the worl...
Continue readingOn Free Speech
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A post of mine from a recent email thread on why a co-op should continue to host a server with arguably distasteful but legal content:...
Continue readingDavid’s Difficult Math Question
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In honor of pi day1 3/14&8230;...
Continue readingMildly Controversial Thoughts for Further Exploration
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The singularity is past. We&8217;re already living in a collective consciousness with behaviors exceeding the capacity of any human or machine to understand, because that collective has intelligence exceeding our own by definition....
Continue readingMission Statement
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Who am I?...
Continue readingBeer Tasting Notes
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On September 22nd, 2007, I got together with several of my friends Eve Phillips, Jocelyn Joy Berl, Travis Kalanick, Nathan Schmidt, and Alan Keefer and with the inspiration of my brother Chris Weekly1 we tasted a number of beers and rated them, along...
Continue readingGluing David Together Again
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Help. My identity has been spread too thin....
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The Simplest Thing (VIDEO)
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In this talk for STIRR1 FounderHacks, I emphasize that founders should have their product do the simplest thing possible and let their users guide but not design! their product....
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Why I’m Not Going to Landmark
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> <span style="color: 999999;"><a href="http://landmarkeducation.com/">Landmark</a> is a popular and profitable program in the US that claims to teach people how to better master themselves and their perceptions of the world. A number of my friends h...
Continue readingSpecism: A Moral Framework
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Every person and every animal has built in a desire to survive and to better themselves. Upon this self-centric axiom systems such as Objectivism1 are built. Such systems lack something central to the human experience &8211; desire for the direct bet...
Continue readingThe Echo Chamber
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> Much of the &8220;blogosphere&8221; seems to be an echo chamber, with its own terminology including the word &8220;blogosphere&8221;, cult leaders, conferences, and memes. Why? Is this healthy?\...
Continue readingPlease Mock Me
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I am rather appalled by the continuing aftermath of the publication of a few single-frame cartoon images of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper nearly half a year ago. A natural question has gone unasked: how many, if any, of those protesting have actuall...
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