Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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Comedy

31 Dec 2008, 10:13 a.m.

New Year's Inspiration

40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes.

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28 Dec 2008, 15:24 p.m.

Square One TV Paean

If you ask geeks what influenced them in their formative years, the responses cluster around some well-known loci: Star Trek, great science teachers and permissive school computer labs, a particular BBS, LEGO, authority figures who …

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22 Dec 2008, 7:59 a.m.

Movies, TV, Music, And More! Well, Actually, That's It

Previous entry aside, Leonard and I have been staying in from the cold and experiencing media. Music: Dar Williams's latest CD, Promised Land, has a song about the Milgram Experiment! Timely. And I'm on my …

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11 Dec 2008, 15:35 p.m.

That's The Story I Heard

All our music -- ripped CDs, Creative Commons stuff, ripped tapes, and Amazon MP3 purchases -- now lives in the MythTV media center that Leonard built, making for about 3 days of music. I recently …

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25 Nov 2008, 1:45 a.m.

Some images, tweets, and documentation from Seattle MindCamp 2008

Please link to other relevant stuff in the comments! I learned about MindCamp sometime Friday, Nov. 20th, and devised the idea for my talk in about 5 minutes late Friday night while going to sleep …

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23 Nov 2008, 1:44 a.m.

Yay For HOWTOs

Am running You, Yes You, Can Do Standup Comedy. Going well! Then at 8 I run spar, then at 9 the political science talk. Which means Keynote time somewhere in the next 7 hours. I …

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15 Nov 2008, 16:16 p.m.

Subconscious Homophone

The other day someone said the phrase "Edge Case" and I thought he'd said my name.

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02 Nov 2008, 8:27 a.m.

Nandini, This Trailer Isn't On Apple's Site Yet

Given that most people who read my site have broadband, I'm experimenting with actually including graphics, video, etc. Basically stuff you couldn't do with a telegraph in 1872. In that spirit: My sister and I …

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03 Oct 2008, 8:59 a.m.

If The Election Debates Were Like High School Debate

On any given day there would be three or four debates Sixteen or more debates would determine the winner, tournament-style You'd see team debate ("Oxford-style") where each ticket found out 90 minutes before the show …

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12 Sep 2008, 14:52 p.m.

Border Patrol On The Shore

A colleague is having a bunch of trouble involving government documents - passport, social security card, driver's license, and recursive dependencies among them. "You sound like Jason Bourne." "I feel like Joseph K."

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