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Nicole and I stayed with a five other friends (four adults, one baby) in a house in upstate New York this weekend. Damn, it was refreshing.

It was so nice to be in the company of baby I started to feel like one myself.

technorati tags: babies, upstate

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My buddy Josh (no, not me, another Josh) pointed me to this game that was submitted to the MTV-sponsored program Darfur Digital Activist. It’s a Flash-based game in which you are a kid in Darfur trying to dodge the janjaweed (the Arab militia responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of black Sudanese [...]

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A friend of mine recently pointed me to Newsvine, a news site that aims to give the readers the power to report the news. The site basically aggregates feeds from the AP wire and allows its community of users to rate them and post their own stories. Then everybody comments on them and [...]

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My good friend Olivia started a blog called Beyond the Shelves that she’s using to document her graduate library work at Simmons College.   I  always like it when my friends start blogging after making fun of me for doing it (okay, Liv never made fun of me, but I’m sensitive).  I’m also a fan of [...]

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Some of you may know that I’m working on a pretty ambitious project that involves blogging, filmmaking, teaching ESL, and producing a Hasidic children’s show (well, the last one is still up in the air).  The goal of the project is to put into action what I laid out in my brilliant, influential essay Social [...]

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A few virtuous readers have pointed out that I didn’t provide a link to my new group blog, the Lab Partners, co-authored by the inimitable Rosanne and others (possibly, at some point, my brother James and my wife Nicole). I’m busy boy these days, overextending myself to ensure that my head is constantly on [...]

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