Monthly Archives: June 2009

Good enough, smart enough, and people like him

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 30, 2009

Al Franken has finally been declared the winner of the Minnesota Senate race. According to NPR, the State Supreme Court ruling was unanimous. Minnesota’s Republican governor, Tim Pawlenty, has said previously that he would certify Franken if the Court directed him to do so. Follow-up news coming soon on the Daily Show, I’m sure.

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Jennifer Balderama

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 29, 2009

[Wordnik is] “A crowdsourced toolkit for tracking and recording the evolution of language as it occurs, its goal is to gather as much information about a word as possible — not its mere definition, but also in-sentence examples, semantic ‘neighborhoods’ of related words, images, statistics about usage, and more. And it’s all compiled via user [...]

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Caveat Lector

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 27, 2009

AKMA observes that Dorothea Salo is hanging it up at Caveat Lector. Regarding her decision she says, What’s next? I don’t know. Some things are right out; I’m not going to go pseudonymous and pop up in another corner, for example, because I just don’t roll that way, never mind that my writing style and [...]

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burningbird

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 27, 2009

Shelley Powers declares her site redesign complete! She asks, What breadcrumb could I use to tease you all into leaving the safety of your syndication feeds, to venture into the raw and wooly lands of actual web pages? With that one sentence I’ve managed to exceed 140 characters, so I’ve already broken the rhythm of [...]

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der Bingle

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 26, 2009

bada bing… der Bingle — not just a mellifluous 20th century popular baritone, but now also a Microsoft search engine for the 21st century. Or something. It seems to work, and it gives Microsoft a fingertip grip on the ledge of internetworking, arresting their fall into the chasm of irrelevance. I searched “Cap and Trade” [...]

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At the end of your fork in the road

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 24, 2009

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Thanks Ben and Katie!

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 21, 2009
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The long way home

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 20, 2009

I’ve upgraded Listics to WordPress 2.8. I’ve dabbled with Opera Unite. I’ve spent plenty of time on twitter, and… yes, Facebook too. Truth be told, I’ve also played too many games of Spider Solitaire. I’ve bookmarked dozens of links to information on a panoply of web publishing tools–weapons, as some would have it, in the [...]

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