“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-5). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives. You can subscribe to the podcast with this URL. You can also see one jumbo list of my past playlists [...]
Through the Wire
"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
October 20th, 2010
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@jaquith it’s no big deal. just type ‘open smb://hostname/path’ in a shell and it will prompt for auth, then mount it at /Volumes/path (in reply to this tweet) Groupon cashes in. $3.5 mil from IL to create 250 jobs in Chicago instead of offices in some other state. http://j.mp/cTTxlx /via @santheo Sounds like a really [...]
October 19th, 2010
WNUR Conference of the Birds, 2010-10-19
“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-5). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives. You can subscribe to the podcast with this URL. You can also see one jumbo list of my past playlists [...]
October 19th, 2010
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Detroiter hits road in mobile restaurant | detnews.com | The Detroit News (tags: detroit food foodtruck via:twitter=vielmetti) (sources: Twitter user @vielmetti (Edward Vielmetti)) Hacking the D.C. Internet Voting Pilot | Freedom to Tinker “We’ve found a number of other problems in the system, and everything we’ve seen suggests that the design is brittle: one small [...]
October 18th, 2010
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@onyxfish Sounds like an excellent Pilsen day! (in reply to this tweet) @RaquelAPLA oh man, I’d like to have been there… (in reply to this tweet) “The supposed link between pinup and bag lady sounded like an O. Henry tale of Old New York.” http://j.mp/9DT44R RT @onyxfish I used @scraperwiki to create consolidated FOIA request/response [...]
October 15th, 2010
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Ten Theses on Tablets from @timbray http://j.mp/b0sz9o First post! RT @chmcavoy I’m gaming to raise money for Children’s Memorial in Chicago, help me with a donation! http://bit.ly/beHLYq @rjmiller The problem for me with #FollowerFinder http://j.mp/dpOmRO is that I don’t need more people to follow! But I’ll play around. (in reply to this tweet) Jon Stewart [...]
October 14th, 2010
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Lovely typographic maps of Chicago and Boston http://j.mp/cICmKr /via @hudonnoodles @stringbot Have you also been sending a series of “Think Pieces” to your coworkers? #innovating (in reply to this tweet) @ryanpitts that’s good, right? (in reply to this tweet) New Conf. of the Birds: more hip-hop than usual, but also soul & jazz, mento & [...]
October 13th, 2010
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@Rubbernun Just to be clear: TribCo != Trib, at least in my parlance. (in reply to this tweet) @happy_stomach I can help you with quality control on those Lillet Marshmallows. (in reply to this tweet) Cool Hand Luke lives “Parking meters in Chicago stolen” http://bit.ly/cextk0 Share and Enjoy:
October 12th, 2010
WNUR Conference of the Birds, 2010-10-12
“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-5). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives. You can subscribe to the podcast with this URL. You can also see one jumbo list of my past playlists [...]
October 12th, 2010
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Attn @CalebMelby RT @milesraymer Help Wanted: Are you or a friend/loved one/acquaintance interested in interning for me? Get in touch. “I think that we should always be able to say the holes in our DVDs are poked by unhappy unicorns.” http://j.mp/bQiL89 Arthur C. Clarke predicting the future in 1964. [VIDEO] Three minutes of Clarke prognosticating, [...]