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The latest video at HowardDean.tv is this week’s CNN report about the Meetup pheonomenon for Governor Dean’s campaign. While the report notes that political analysts aren’t placing much faith in the Meetup numbers, it’s a good snapshot of a number of supporters, why they’re there, and how Meetup is inspiring new groups of people to…

Matrix release a big test for Imax large-screen theaters – Jun. 6, 2003 This weekend, 39 of 95 commercial Imax theaters will start showing the Matrix sequel while the movie is still playing on thousands of conventional movie screens. In November, when the third leg of the trilogy, “The Matrix: Revolutions” hits the nation’s multiplexes,…

There’s an ongoing thread attached to a post I made after seeing Matrix: Reloaded about some of the underlying meaning. But for the mother of all threads, be sure to head over to Jason Kottke’s site where there are (as of this writing) 458 comments. Whoa. In related news, today Ernie points us to a…

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things Federal court approves cellular number portabilityHallelujah. Today, a federal court rejected an appeal from wireless companies and ruled that consumers should have the right to retain their old phone numbers when switching carriers. Consumer advocates say the inability to retain numbers is one of the biggest barriers preventing…

(Editor’s note: Apparently an e-mail of Michael Colby’s attack on Howard Dean from February is in wide circulation. One individual, Jeff Kaufman, took time to draft a reply – which itself is now circulating by e-mail. In the interest of balancing the debate, I thought it a good idea to let Kaufman’s comments get some…

A number of people (Sabrina Pacifici, Jerry Lawson, Larry Staton, to name a few) linked to my article in this month’s LPM about how to add functionality to your browser. Larry quite rightly pointed out that it’s focused on IE for Windows. As a result of Larry’s post, not to mention several e-mails I got,…

HOLLYWOOD MEETUP REPORT The Hollywood California meetup continues to hold strong. This month we had 115 people, up from 75 last month. We spent a good deal of time recapping the past month and Gov. Dean’s visit last Sunday for the CTA speech. We also recruited donors for a series of fund raisers Dean will…

I’m looking for some statistics about the costs of homegrown development. A firm I’ve been talking to is fighting a battle with their IT department – the IT department insists on building every application themselves, while marketing and management are now leaning towards buying us (a fully-built CRM system tailored to their market). What I…

McGee’s Musings Punting the SAT Scholastic Aptitude Test: Answering All Questions Incorrectly. This is a knee-slapping account of one person’s attempt to achive the lowest possible score on a SAT examination. The project is fully documented, with lavish illustrations, from the original application to take the test to the white-knuckle stress of finding the wrong…

New gig in the private sector: I’ve actually spent the bulk of my post-doctoral career on the non-academic side of the fence and I’m headed back there again. You can see the details here, although I try to avoid wearing a tie whenever possible. I find that I’m happiest working in rapidly growing environments. Kellogg…