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No BART, so driving to the protest with a weed whacker and gas lawnmower in my van. That won't freak anyone out, right? :/

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Officially sick of picking out a black T-shirt from my drawer to discover that it has an Elgg logo on it, but can't bring myself to get rid of them.

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I think this is a net positive. Oregon proposes funding college through a 3% tax on graduates: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324251504578582101593420808.html

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I'll be joining the San Francisco protest to restore the Fourth Amendment. Check out if there's one in your area: http://www.restorethefourth.net/

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<a href="http://twitter.com/restorethefourth">@restorethefourth</a> Heads up: giant typo on your protest information pages. The word "unconstitutional", no less.

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July the 4th be with you.

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<a href="http://twitter.com/obra">@obra</a> A first attempt at this is now in the repository.

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Whoa. Raffi confirms that bananaphones (doopidoopidoop) are safe from wiretapping: https://twitter.com/Raffi_RC/status/352654219414749186

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<a href="http://twitter.com/obra">@obra</a> I was planning on having it in the installer, but I agree that it makes a lot of sense in the admin panel too.

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<a href="http://twitter.com/obra">@obra</a> Check out the non-bundled plugins in 's GitHub space (including Twitter): https://github.com/idno

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<a href="https://twitter.com/obra/">@obra</a> That's an astonishing domain name by the way.

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Replied to a post on s.ly :

<a href="http://twitter.com/obra">@obra</a> I'm sorry about the libcurl support; required to reliably go check out pinging sites. Interested in feedback on this.

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Enjoying being the guy with the British accent wishing everyone a happy 4th. (Hey, I'm an American too.)

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Where the hipsters are, according to Yelp (or, a guide for Ben to choose where to live): http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/portlandia-everywhere-where-the-hipsters-are-a...

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There's a high chance that the next time I have to deal with Western Dental Berkeley, I will simply primal scream down the phone at them.

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"My wife, at her resting state, is heroic, and I am, in essence, just some guy." Amazing comment piece on abortion: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/03/rob-delaney-access-safe-legal-abortion

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<a href="https://twitter.com/sandeepshetty/status/352540142466113538">@sandeepshetty</a> Not anymore! Thanks for the spot.

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What do you do when you notice you're not firing on all cylinders but need to get something done right? Let's assume "add more coffee" isn't an option.

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The mother of all demos. Rest in peace, Doug Engelbart: http://vimeo.com/1408300

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Sweltering

Sweltering

That awkward moment where you realize you've made a terrible mistake and your is basically a greenhouse at this point.

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Interesting post by <a href="http://twitter.com/anildash">@anildash</a> on the golden age of RSS: http://dashes.com/anil/2013/07/the-golden-age-of-rss.html For markup for likes etc, see the community.

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That Europeans are just talking about boycotting US services betrays a lot about the nature of patriotism.

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Avoiding US services because of NSA spying is silly: Europe is at it too. Better to think differently about data.

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Returning to exercise after hurting my back a few weeks ago. Decline crunches are no problem; attempting push ups was a mistake. Owiee.

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@alevin Your phone holds your contact lists; their calendars etc can be found using their emails as a key. & with that, I crash.

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