Oprah, as weathercaster, to Eastern Seaboard: YOU get a hurricane, and YOU get a hurricane. YOU'RE ALL GETTING A HURRICANE! #irene

@marcoarment @danbenjamin I'm pretty sure you could have just asked Dan to get back on a podcast without selling Instapaper.

I love that New York shifts from liberal elite city outside the "real America" right up until someone needs to wrap themselves in 9/11.

Post-hurricane, please remember, planning for a contingency doesn't mean the contingency has to happen for the planning to have had value.

An open letter to Senators Burr and Kagan and Representative Miller regarding the TSA: http://bit.ly/a9SI4w

@wilshipley I love melting my own silicate to make a touchscreen. Also, check out this sweet phone case I made from a soda can. #gnustories

@pourmecoffee They lose track of maple syrup. We’re fine.

"Flat files?"
"Berkley DB?"
"SDBM files."
"How about we just ask a class of preschoolers to each remember a number?"

New blog post on #BarCampRDU 2013, focusing on @jhibbets' talk, "Open Source All the Cities!"  http://wallscorp.us/content/2013/05/19/raleigh-open-government/ …

Wow, NCGA, wow. /via @swills  http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2013/05/02/even-counting-votes-too-scientific-for-north-carolina/ …

Another neat project from one of my coworkers, for Node.js pub/sub.  https://github.com/bzwheeler/pigeon …

Great presentation by @karnowski, talking about CI at @thinkrelevance - Nice reboot meeting for @triangledevops at Bronto, too.

Ah, early voting is over, but you still have Tuesday. No excuses, make a plan. Go vote.

0 Workdays without a seismic event.

During this current epic yak shave, I've had to learn metallurgy to make the razor.

Angry Bezos as a Service

Steve Martin, offering one of the strangest political endorsements I’ve seen. http://t.co/E5A5aE3S

@youarestars @catscradlenc Thanks for the show last night. So great to hear “Hold On When You Get Love…”

Wondering how quickly the high bandwidth LTE features carriers love to show in commercials would exhaust the carrier bandwidth caps.

Just as I hate seeing "rockstar" or "ninja" in job postings, I'm going to avoid writing "weapons-grade" into the one I'm working on today.