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"...I am simultaneously driven to order and categorization, and so easily distracted from same as to drive my orderly wife up a wall."

I'm getting tears watching the LEGO Universe trailer. Just-in-time building with LEGO brick that flies from your fingers? HELL YES.

My family is about to move into a new house, which has me pondering my management of the two parts of the house I can legitimately call mine: my office (at least during the times I've had one) and the workshop. This house will be the third house Jodi and I have owned, and it will be the first with both of these features as separate, properly delineated spaces. And I'm practically giddy about it.

>A little over three years ago, the web designer and online essayist Leslie Harpold died at age 40. Leslie was a friend of mine, part of a circle of early web creators who discovered the medium as it was blossoming in the mid-'90s. -- Rogers Cadenhead, Why Leslie Harpold's Sites Disappeared

back home, house purchased (!!!), ducking under the headphones to drown out the Barbie movie the kids are watching.

Ratio of bank protections to consumer protections in 3/4" of loan docs: 98:2

Wow. This new "automatic minority veto" is literally the most broken thing in our government. http://bit.ly/5lHdg5 (via @wilshipley)

hey @carnage4life, good comments on that post. Thanks. http://bit.ly/5u5vHs

OpenID Connect: Standards and Solutions http://bit.ly/7djdLC (via @monkinetic) /cc @chrismessina @carnage4life

OpenID Connect: Standards and Solutions http://www.monkinetic.com/2010/01/openid-connect-standards-and-solutions.html (via @monkinetic)

Oh my, Search in Google Reader is awesome. How have I never needed this?

For several years, from about 1996 to 1999, Dave Winer and UserLand Software were a huge portion of my daily life. I was creating websites and scripting tools in Frontier, reading Davenet, Scripting News, the frontier users' mailing lists. I'm pretty sure I dreamt in usertalk a few times, and I was well indoctrinated with the culture of outlining.

Bring back the filibuster! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-zelinsky/save-the-senate-bring-bac_b_414964.html

My 8yo just told me that my techno sounds "like LEGO music". AWESOME #ftw #highpraiseindeed

Why Is Tumblr Kicking Posterous’s Ass?: http://✪df.ws/egs (via @daringfireball)

Confiddling: fiddling with configuration files

@JimRoepcke Yeah, this had neither. :-< #stillhaventfoundwhatimlookingfor

Off to check out a Mistubishi 55" DLP RP TV from Craiglist. Tips on what to look at when deciding to buy?

"Don't Crush It" is crushing it in my great big headphones to drown out the sounds of the 8yo's "Saddle Club" playing on the TV.