[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZElWBsoyvUo[/youtube]
21 years? Man, that’s something to realize. Direct link.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNBjKWV65Qc[/youtube]
17 years, but even further away. Direct link.
Month: February 2008
. . . why I love my neighborhood).
Each photo links to its flickr page (with more sizes available). A few more shots of the Clarendon Mardi Gras parade here.
Don’t forget, Clarendon throws its very own Mardi Gras parade tonight at 8pm. Beads, but no bare chests. However, it does carry the vibe that every other Arlington event does – good people and good times (and floats!). Details here.
Most of us will take far more from the Internet than we will ever give back. Sheldon Brown, however, managed to give far more than he could ever have taken. Sheldon passed away yesterday, apparently of a massive heart attack. He will be missed by an enormous number of people, most of whom have never met him. There isn’t a cyclist I know who hasn’t referred to Sheldon’s near encyclopedic site on all things bike for the answer to one mystery or another. Ride on, Sheldon. You will be missed.
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For those of you who only knew about Sheldon’s love of bikes, be sure to check out his photography, his journal/blog, and, well, a little bit of everything else.
- Barack Obama
- Hillary Clinton
- The Superbowl
Thank you, and enjoy the rest of your weekend.
This post breaks a number of my usual rules. It relates to the practice of law. It posts an email from a listserv. I did not ask for permission. But I think I’ll manage to live with it, as this is a *great* idea:
 From: Carl Malamud [carl@media.org]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 5:43 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: Recycle your documents and help save the judiciaryGreetings –
For IP if you wish. Public.Resource.Org and Creative Commons are pleased to announce a new site that allows users to recycle PACER documents:
http://pacer.resource.org/
PACER is the system that the U.S. Courts use to distribute opionions, briefs, and other documents at $0.08/page. The system rakes in so much money there is $146.6 million they don’t know what to do with.
Rather than waste all these documents and help contribute to the rhetorical warming of the Internet, pacer.resource.org lets users upload their used PACER docs for recycling.
And, since recycling may not be conducive to your lifestyle but you support the idea of saving, we offer a program of digital offsets so you can become a net neutral (sorry Dave) contributor to the public domain.
Carl Malamud
Great work, Carl. I’ll be contributing, shortly.
Yesterday’s examination of Arlington’s call to “respect mah authoritah!” (warning: sound at that link) reminded me of another public document apparently following the design principle of “there can never be too much Red, White & Blue” – the new passport. Despite the fact that I was aware of the coming ugliness, I failed to renew my passport in time to take advantage of the old stock. Now, every time I open it, I expect it to act like one of those old musical cards, except this one plays a Toby Keith song. As you’ve probably heard a dozen times by now, yesterday was the first day that the US government started requiring passports for travel between Canada and the US. A little sad, really, when even countries like Germany and Poland (they’ve got a slightly different history . . . ) can manage to avoid such silliness.
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Speaking of travel – this is an excellent resource for vegetarians on their way to Japan (or a good sushi bar). It explains, in detail, how to make sure your meal arrives veg friendly (and that your options range beyond seaweed and rice).  I wish I’d seen this before I went to Tokyo, where I found ordering veg food a surprisingly difficult process.
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Looking for some new online reading? Check out WWI: Experiences of an English Soldier.  A relative has the full collection of Mr. William Henry Bosner Lanin’s letters home from the European theater, and is posting them exactly ninety years to the date they were written. It’s a really fascinating way to revisit the Great War.