From the monthly archives: May 2007

Creativity from Distruction – Public Art

By On May 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

We just learned that a popular and beloved peice of public art in Carrboro, North Carolina is gone. It was painted over suddenly. Read all about this on Orange Politics, The News and Observer, and The Carrboro Citizen. Here is my idea of what to do next. (cross posted from the comments [...]

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Breaking News: Paul Jones has new WP Theme

By On May 22, 2007 · 1 Comment

Paul Jones has a new WordPress theme! Aw YEAH!

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RDCH: Twitter users in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill

By On May 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Last week I created a new user on Twitter called RDCH. It stands for Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill. The idea is for this Twitter user to act like a group. I’ve been using Twittervision Map and Google to find people who’ve identified that they live somewhere in the Triangle aka RDCH. (That includes [...]

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Its Smoky Outside

By On May 16, 2007 · 1 Comment

Smelled something odd this morning. Didn’t think anything of it. Then I got this email from the Town of Chapel Hill:

Smell smoke?

Due to the cold front passing through, the smoke from the Georgia wildfires has migrated to North Carolina. You may see a slight haze and smell smoke in the area from [...]

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Heroine Astronauts

By On May 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment


Jerrie Cobb, public domain image from Wikipedia.

NPR had a great segment on this morning about women who were secretly trained for the Mercury 13 space flights. Then NASA and Lyndon Johnson stopped them from serving. Five years ago via the Freedom of Information Act it was [...]

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Wubi installs Ubuntu to a file

By On May 9, 2007 · 2 Comments

Wubi sounds pretty damn cool. No longer do you have to repartition your PC hard drive to install Linux. Dowload a Windows exe file to guide you through an Ubuntu install.

Is this running Ubuntu within a virtual environment or something similar?

No. This is a real installation, the only difference is that Ubuntu [...]

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Run Rabbit Run

By On May 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

“Rabbit” by Run Wrake

8m 30s

Thanks for sharing this with me Ruby!

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We are Monkeys

By On May 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Del.icio.us user thelastminute, who’s in my network, hipped me to “What we are” on YouTube. Its by Ernest Cline. Amazing! Profound even…

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Town of Carrboro Charter Printed in The Citizen

By On May 6, 2007 · 1 Comment

In this weeks Carrboro Citizen you’ll find the Charter of the Town of Carrboro. You may wonder who besides a politician or bureaucrat would enjoy reading this document? Well me for one.

Why? Because within this ancient legalese lies answers to why things happen in Carrboro. Time and time again here on OP [...]

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Nocturnal Barred Owl Music

By On May 4, 2007 · Leave a Comment


A few nights last week we slept with our windows open. Sometime after midnight but before dawn a LOUD chorus of birds starts making a serious racket. The sound that woke me up first was “hoo, hoo, too-HOO; hoo, hoo, too-HOO, ooo”. Last year at our old house I remember hearing something [...]

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