The Darth Mall

A lovely vegan sushi restaurant Z found.

Dare to suck is, for all intents and purposes, my friend Pete’s motto.

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This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings.

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Time again to call your representatives.

Ben nudged me to publish this list, so here it is.

To date, I have written very little about “Artificial Intelligence” (AI).

Until recently, I have been filing my photos under the date the photos were taken.

This morning I learned about this informal protocol for vouching for sites that are made by people, not “Artifical Intelligence” (AI): human.json (Via Terence Eden).

This post is part of the March IndieWeb Carnival for 2026, “Museum memories,” hosted by James.

(5-year-old spots a book at the library with a penguin on the cover.) 5-year-old: What’s that book?

First off, I know I am being curmudgeonly here.

Subaru's "Everyone You Love" ad for the 2026 Outback I was really struck by this ad from Subaru when I saw it because they are actually calling attention to how dangerous our roads are.

This is a new one on me: according to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) good weather this winter has caused an increase in traffic deaths.

I started using Obsidian three or four years ago.

I came across this book review via Cory Doctorow’s blog.

For some time now I’ve been thinking about how our RSS1 feeds homogenize the web.

Have you ever noticed that one unkind act — even a small one — can wreck your day?

Today I learned that instead of recycling our empty plastic bottles and glass jars, we can clean them out and donate them to our local food bank.

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Wife: I was thinking that maybe we should start doing a movie night.

Today I discovered — although I think I used to know this — that Ursula K.

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Today was my kid’s first day of kindergarten.

Let’s suppose we have a blog built with Eleventy.

It was last Thursday, folks.

I feel like I’m going crazy.

Roughly a year ago, I decided to stop keeping a list of the books I wanted to read — my to-be-read (TBR) list.

5-year-old: My Honda Fit is not like a normal Honda Fit; it can go from 0 to… 5 miles per hour in… 3… minutes!

For much of my life, taking public transit has been A Choice.

Because Ben asked… These questions were originally posed by Ava for folks using Bear Blog.

4-year-old: You got shot in the head by radar.

Miriam Suzanne wrote a great post that is largely about how readily and easily people ignore the harms of the current crop of AI tools; how frustrating it is to listen to people bend over backwards trying to come up with some way to actually use these thi…

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