I had stopped writing for DC Metroblogging earlier this year, at a point when my posting frequency was down to about once a month and my work/home life simply did not give me time for it. There was no drama or conflict involved, just simple quiet lapsing into dormancy because I had too much on my plate.
I recently got back in on local weblog action, however, when I met up with my friend Tom Bridge to help start a new DC site, We Love DC -- lovingly designed by John Athayde and coded up in Wordpress by myself. The launch of We Love DC did involve some drama, as the current team of writers (not including myself, since I had left earlier for different reasons from theirs) simultaneously pulled a surprise public resignation from DC MB to move over to WLDC -- a Fourth of July stunt which caused some anger . Being a nonconfrontational type, I’m kind of glad I threw in my writing hat before the conspiracy had surfaced, making me less implicit in it and guilty only...
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links for 2008-03-06From: hownow.brownpau.com
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Photoshop Disasters. Weblog of bad photoshop work in magazines. (tags: photoshop photos magazine design fun oops) President Bush Meets with Senator John McCain. Also tap dances a bit. (tags: president bush mccain dance politics whitehouse video fun news) Planetary Protection at NASA "Our mission is to prevent biological cross-contamination that could result from NASA’s solar system exploration missions." (tags: space nasa biology environment planets) Secret History:...
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HiRISE | The Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars (PSP_005558_9040) Taken from Mars by the HiRISE instrument aboard MRO. Note that the moon is actually closer to the camera than Earth in the photo. (tags: space earth moon nasa jpl mro photos) Ecologist Maps Manhattan of 400 Years Ago : TreeHugger on the Mannahatta project, depictions of Manhattan as historical pre-urban woodland. (tags: nyc manhattan usa history environment 3d art maps) "He Would Challenge Power, Not Run for ...
more links for 2008-03-04From: hownow.brownpau.com
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Triviagasm: The "Castle Thunder" Noise that Rocked a Thousand Movies On the stock "thunder" sound used for lightning-and-thunder effects from various movies through cinematic history. (tags: lightning thunder sound effects film scifi) Might the old MacBooks be faster than the new ones? | 9 to 5 Mac Smaller L2 cache means the new Penryn base MacBook may be slower than the preceding base Santa Rosa model. (tags: apple mac macbook intel hardware processors tech) PvPonline - My Paren...
more links for 2008-03-03From: hownow.brownpau.com
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Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos | Wired Science from Wired.com (tags: science chemistry video fire) In pictures: Prince Harry in Afghanistan (tags: news bbc uk afghanistan war princeharry royalty photos) Profile: Dmitry Medvedev Russia’s new president. (tags: russia politics president medvedev) blog.pmarca.com: An hour and a half with Barack Obama (tags: obama people politics) Scary Airbus A320 Crosswind Landing Video (by Jeremy Zawodny) Nasty wingst...
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