Posted on September 2, 2009 at 4:10 p.m.

Plus, downvote anything that has "social" in the name.

On Vote for some local bloggers (including one of our content partners) to be a SXSW panel

Posted on August 31, 2009 at 9:41 a.m.

Hey Chris, sorry we were a little slow there. You're set now.

On Outbursts

Posted on August 27, 2009 at 9:05 a.m.

As a developer, I recommend logic. Hmm, that might not work. Non-violence, then. What if couples just held hands? :-)

On Gay activists square off on a equality strategy.

Posted on August 24, 2009 at 12:33 p.m.

Rick,

You were, but I rolled out the fix about the same time you posted this comment. We don't have any floating ads running now, so the point's not proven, but I think it should be better for you next time we have one.

On KERA acquires 91.7 FM for new public radio music station

Posted on August 20, 2009 at 9:33 a.m.

Jason, You were adversely affected because you're a "staff member" to our ad server-- probably because you've contributed writing to us.

Most users should see this sort of ad at most once per day, but I'd written the ad service to abuse staff members a bit more so that a) we'd eat our own dog food and b) so that ad service administrators could view any ad for testing purposes.

Unfortunately, you and some other sorta-normal users got caught in the "staff member" net.

I'm adding a feature to allow individual staff members to be shown ads as normal users and putting you in that bucket. You should then only have dinosaurs eating your eyes once per day, or thereabouts. (The actual limit is subject to annoying technical vagaries, alas.)

Sorry for the collateral damage. :-/

On KERA acquires 91.7 FM for new public radio music station

Posted on August 4, 2009 at 5:53 p.m.

I like Hal Higdon's advice, too.

Also, if you have an iPod or similar, I recommend Podrunner Intervals.

On Ready to run in Dallas-Fort Worth

Posted on July 29, 2009 at 4:24 p.m.

Seriously, Five Blades, peopel!1

Slightly NSFW link, maybe.

On Plano dad launches micro-blogging site like Twitter -- with a twist

Posted on July 29, 2009 at 10:54 a.m.

jeremy_b, are you volunteering? :-)

On Front yard treehouse in University Park causing issues

Posted on July 20, 2009 at 3:09 p.m.

Cory Doctorow had a good suggestion for culture-propagation-- make a deal with media manufacturers to ship their USB sticks (or whatever's next) full of CC-licensed (or publicly-funded) files.

Sure, lots of people might wipe the data as soon as they bought it, but some would put it on shuffle (wink, David) before doing so.

On Game-changing development for indie bands

Posted on June 29, 2009 at 8:53 p.m.

My wife wanted to see it. She loved the first one. I started checking my watch about 30 minutes into it. ++ungood. She didn't like it either.

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