There was a period around a year ago when I was on FB a lot. I'm still on it more than most other sites except Google search, but it's utility for me has declined significantly. There's too much ADD on there. I tried to get involved with a 'group' but the groupware features are too weak to support anything (traditional tools like message boards, email lists, chats, are better implemented by the old software that's just "out there" in the internet).

An excerpt from On the Edge by Bill L. Disbrow, writing about the Gora Hotel during the occupation of Japan:

I've been learning that people don't know about this event in American history. It was a significant event, and it's easy to study thanks to extensive documentation and tireless efforts of activists to uncover the information. Links after the jump.

Starting up a new list of possible companies to use for nonprofit left, left-center.

http://tumis.com/section/view/about_us
http://www.echoditto.com/about
http://www.advomatic.com/about
http://www.forumone.com/about_us
http://webtraxstudio.com/

So I was watching the Gustavo Arellano at Google and he mentioned another thing called "Ask a Korean" (a good blog), and noticed that "Ask a Librarian" was coming up a lot. So I searched for it on Google: there were 6,340,000 pages found.

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Sandals separated at birth?
Waraji:

Huarache:

1. The argument's been made so often, it needs a macro.

2. See http://laeastside.com/

3. The real Eastside is east of the LA river. It's had this name for around 50 years. The area around Silver Lake is not the Eastside.

What a strange new years. I'm sick with some flu or something. Congested and coughing. Toast with a store brand "Robitussin DM." My GF broke her hand, so it's in a cast - the cat's paw.

A pair of websites about the Chinese community in Calcutta. Chinese have migrated to India for some 230 years, and there is a Chinatown in Calcutta.
Kolkata Chinatown
Dhapa - Kolkata Chinese Community Blog

I was sitting with my mother, watching some TV, talking about how when she was a child, she used to collect wood for money, which was s

It's one of those "synchronicity" weeks. Robin Bloor wrote a quick bit about a fundamental error with the "cost of copying is zero" argument, and he's right. The cost of copying is not free, but very cheap. Computers, electricity, and the internet cost money - in my case, over $100 a month. So, copying some songs is not "free" - I paid others so i could copy. (FTR, I just signed up to Napster, and used to sub to Emusic, both decent song sellers.)

Coworking spaces are rented offices that are more formal than a cafe, and try to be more social than a regular shared rental office(and cheaper too). Here's a list of three:

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), is software produced primarily for social benefit, rather than profit. Over the last 30 years, different organizational structures have evolved to produce this software. Most of these organizations fall squarely in the category of "civil society", though they exist in a realm dominated by for-profit corporations.

If you're cheap and have a low-end, generic MP3 player that will also display text files, you can read your RSS feeds on it with the help of this script.