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Wired News reports on a US congressional bill, “The Motor Vehicle Owner’s Right to Repair Act” (H.R. 2735, S. 2138), saying “The legislation argues that consumers own their vehicles in their entirety and should be able to access their onboard computers.”
Not knowing too much about it, this sounds like the kind of thing I’d [...]
In Slate, Thomas Geoghegan has some ideas about “how to make voting fun again”. This has been something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Part of Geoghegan’s slant is increasing the turnout of traditionally “Democratic” voters, but to me it’s just about making the process work better. If more people [...]
EatChicago.net comments on a Chicago Magazine one-pager about the “Check, Please” effect.
The story is really just a list, and it’s not particularly insightful, but it does raise an interesting issue: Are we ruining our own dining experiences restaurants by publicizing them? Every restaurant critic, journalist, and food-lover wrestles with this issue. Do I tell my [...]
Our story continues a year to the night
After Us’ Chief Resident started the fight.
Tom Chalk is at it again, with The Great Go-Goop War, Part 2
In an unprecedented occurrence of welcome comment spam (I guess that makes it “ham”?), I was pointed to this by Mr. Chalk himself in a comment posted to my [...]
A little less than a year ago, I posted about Whole Earth Magazine’s cash flow problems. I guess I missed a swirl of commentary in January remarking on the official closing of WER’s offices, but today I came Utne’s Eulogy and thought it worth noting.
A little further investigation turned up this thread from [...]
2 killed in N. Side shootout: Panel determines officers responded properly returning suspect’s fire
Officers acted properly when they shot and killed an alleged gang member late Monday night after the suspect shot to death another man in a North Side park, a police review panel determined today.
Police said the incident started as a squabble [...]
More than a month ago, I had a serious problem with the boot drive of the machine that hosts my blog. I managed to get a new system installed, and I copied everything over.
It didn’t take too long to get the webserver running again, but I was having some troubles with my [...]