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Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.

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Gone 25

Today is the 25th year since my older brother passed away, at that he had been alive 34 years, and I knew him not even for that long. I’ve not known him besides dim memories, black and white photos, I can only grasp at; in some alternate universe he is my 59 year old brother […]

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Truth. Cats. Dogs.

The internet giveth and provideth the truth. Need I say more? Via the stream of creative flow of b3ta which came my way via a message from @dkernohan who I only got to know via the network of ds106 which has so many via’s into I better stop.

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Book Review: Teachers of Mad Dog Swamp

I’ve been carting around this novel since randomly plucking it from the shelves last December, found at a used book shop in Hobart, Tasmania. The story by Khammaan Khonkhai is set in Thailand, and for me, the draw was its setting in a culture I knew little about. Piya, a newly trained teacher from the […]

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We Do Hear Ya, Lisa…

so…. @jimgroom @timmmmyboy a gentle reminder, in case you need design help with this is.gd/7kCbd5 #ds106 #pleeeez — Lisa M. Lane (@LisaMLane) April 6, 2012 You may feel ignored as you have been asking a while, but it has not gone unheard. I’ve spent an afternoon climbing around the underbelly of the ds106 WordPress database, […]

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ds106 Mystery Machine May Be in Motion

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Just tonight on The ds106 radio, Scottlo was scoffing at the idea that the ds106 Kickstarter could fund a bus “What kind of bus can you get for under 2 grand?” Why a groovy Mystery Machine, of course! May the hippie force roll into your […]

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Driving Groovy

Continuing on a theme of tough cop genre, I made a movie mashup of Steve McQueen’s Bullitt mellowed out with the mellow sounds of Simon and Garfunkel’s 59th Street Bridge Song: Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last. Just kicking down the cobble stones. Looking for fun and feelin’ […]

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Restoring a Dead Drop

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Last August when I was travleing across Canada, Giulia Forsythe and I went searching in Toronto for the location of the one dead drop located there. Dead drops are in many ways akin to the Piratebox, publicly placed peer to peer file sharing approaches using […]