"most bicycle advocates say cycling deaths are sharply up" ORLY? I had not heard that at all. also, yay (not): Seattle Critical Mass incident hits the friggin Economist.

(tags: bicycling seattle portland local politics)

"Debunking libertarian ideas is like proving the moon isn’t made of cheese, so I won’t waste valuable time here in this essay doing that." A beauteous rant. (for Elizabeth, via Shelley)

(tags: politics philosophizing)

"the studies used to “prove” the prevalence of online sexual solicitation actually show that sexual solicitation mostly exists between teenagers rather than adult predators" one is somehow unsurprised.

(tags: society blogosphere politics)

my gut reaction is that this is where a lot of the "webmasters" that Dylan & I want to talk about are living. I need to read this again 2 or 3 times and see if I can use some of these ideas. also, I'm having that same issue in re: industry-specific events/training. (also, I love the term "cargo-cult sysadmin")

(tags: web_dev sxsw gender academia creditunion)

shameless self-promotion: vote for my presentation! (with Dylan Wilbanks) Dylan promises kid's book readings, which is new to me. (I kid. we did in fact chat about that part.)

(tags: personal web_dev sxsw)

heh. also, classy to link to the fail whale artist's work.

(tags: blogosphere funny)

mega-cute.

(tags: lego)