Monthly Archives: December 2009

Return of the Sun

Posted on December 31, 2009 by

We went to the Morrison Planetarium the other day, where despite Whoopie Goldberg’s reassuring voice, I felt the usual claustrophobia at the limitlessness of space and yet the finity of our Sun. My daughter was scared most of the time, … Continue reading →

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The Perils of the Long Tail, or How I Singlehandedly Started the Jicama Allergy Rumor

Posted on December 22, 2009 by

Jicama Originally uploaded by Gary Soup http://www.flickr.com/photos/garysoup/ / CC BY 2.0 It’s come to my attention that my top-visited post is not my daring stand back at Charla Bansley, nor my complete wraps of various Web 2.0 conferences, nor even … Continue reading →

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Facebook, Privacy, and Logan’s Run

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

Facebook has been rolling out its yet-another-”why hello there, new privacy” settings to you and to me in various alerts and yellow dialog boxes over the last week, providing me the chance to once again wonder whether I like this … Continue reading →

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