books

We like to read ’em. And write ’em.

Breach of Peace (Freedom Riders site launch)

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—the Freedom Riders—entered Southern bus and train stations to challenge their segregated waiting rooms, lunch counters, and bathrooms.

Self-publishing is the new blogging

When you’ve flown this far from Gutenberg, the only place to travel is back.

DWWS Facebook group

A few days ago, Douglas Vos of Dearborn, Michigan, created a Designing With Web Standards group in Facebook just to see what would happen.

God Knocks

“It’s becoming a bedroom community for people who work on Wall Street,” the Wife says of our beloved NYC. Today a small one-bedroom costs over a million. But if Osama bin Laden could not chase us off this island, neither will housing prices. Which brings me to God and the knocking sound.

Inflamed linkazoidal tissues

Worthy causes, worthless internet acquisitions, and more.

Amazonked! (or, the 2nd Edition Dilemma)

The “second edition problem” at Amazon.com, and what Amazon should do about it.