Aggregated outrage addicts are a powerful tool in the hands of a person who doesn't care what kind of wreckage she leaves behind so long as she gets her own way.

So Hal and I were hoping to get a chance to meet up with more of the local folks than we can get with individually while we are in New York. To that end I would like to invite fans, friends, and Internet acquaintances in the tri-state vicinity to stop by Floyd NY in Brooklyn Heights this Saturday around 3:30 PM to hang out with us and maybe play a ( Read more... )

I saw yesterday via Kate's post that the US Olympic Committee had gotten shirty with, of all things, the web-based knitting community, Ravelry and fired off a legal cease-and-desist mark protection notice for Ravelry's use of the term "Ravelympics" (...presumably as part of a comprehensive take-down of any entity using a name ending in -lympic, ( Read more... )