Jepstone.net » world http://www.jepstone.net/blog Rants and Raves from South Kingstown, RI Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:43:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Last day to order your XO Laptop! http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/12/31/last-day-to-order-your-xo-laptop/ http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/12/31/last-day-to-order-your-xo-laptop/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:31:28 +0000 Brian Jepson http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/12/31/last-day-to-order-your-xo-laptop/ Continue reading →]]> XO Laptop
I’ve been playing around with my XO laptop (you can read all about it over at hackszine) and it’s an extremely cool, super-hackable device. You should order one. The price is right: for $400, you:

  • Donate a laptop to a child
  • Get one of your own
  • Get a $200 tax deduction
  • Get one free year of T-Mobile Hotspot

Also, Tom Hoffman and I are organizing an XO Laptop meetup in RI. Check out the thread here and reply if you’re interested. We may wait a few weeks, since it could take a while for people to get their orders.

]]> http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/12/31/last-day-to-order-your-xo-laptop/feed/ 0 Bush’s October Surprise–Voter Intimidation? http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2004/10/26/bushs-october-surprise-voter-intimidation/ http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2004/10/26/bushs-october-surprise-voter-intimidation/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:54:00 +0000 Brian Jepson http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=181 Continue reading →]]> Can this be for real? The BBC is
reporting that the Bush campaign has compiled “a 15-page so-called
‘caging list’ [that] lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in
predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville,
Florida”, apparently for the purposes of challenging these folks as they
vote.

These messages appear to have leaked via GeorgeWBush.org’s
(NOT the Bush campaign) dead letter office, a collection of messages
that arrived in their “catch-all mailbox.

(via vowe dot net).

]]> http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2004/10/26/bushs-october-surprise-voter-intimidation/feed/ 0 It’s Not as Bad as it Appears http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2004/02/23/its-not-as-bad-as-it-appears/ http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2004/02/23/its-not-as-bad-as-it-appears/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:43:00 +0000 Brian Jepson http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=260 Continue reading →]]> I’m much less worried about an independent Nader than I am a Green
Nader. Nader + the Green Party offered the possibility that the Green
Party could grow substantially–that was the payoff, at least in theory.
He’s not offering that this time around.

]]> http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2004/02/23/its-not-as-bad-as-it-appears/feed/ 0 Buttle, Tuttle? Who’s minding this store? http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2004/01/11/buttle-tuttle-whos-minding-this-store/ http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2004/01/11/buttle-tuttle-whos-minding-this-store/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:40:00 +0000 Brian Jepson http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=285 Mark Frauenfelder: Why can’t Homeland Security tell the difference between Al Quaeda and my six-year-old daughter?

]]> http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2004/01/11/buttle-tuttle-whos-minding-this-store/feed/ 1 An Emergency Letter http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/12/09/an-emergency-letter/ http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/12/09/an-emergency-letter/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:36:00 +0000 Brian Jepson http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=308 Jerry
Rubin: An Emergency
Letter to My Brothers and Sisters in the Movement: “From the Bay
Area to New York, we are suffering the greatest depression in our
history. People are taking bitterness in their coffee instead of
sugar.” ]]> http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/12/09/an-emergency-letter/feed/ 0 Where Do You Drink? http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/09/25/where-do-you-drink/ http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/09/25/where-do-you-drink/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:36:00 +0000 Brian Jepson http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=371 Werner
Vogels: “And now for something completely different: The Social
Issues Research Center in Oxford, UK has released an absolutely
marvelous online guide to British pub etiquette…”

]]> http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/09/25/where-do-you-drink/feed/ 0 Arnold is Coming http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/08/30/arnold-is-coming/ http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/08/30/arnold-is-coming/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:57:00 +0000 Brian Jepson http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=388 Volker Weber has the
link… Probably work safe, as long as you don’t crank the volume up to
eleven.

]]> http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/08/30/arnold-is-coming/feed/ 0 Whole Lotta Mapping http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/08/30/whole-lotta-mapping/ http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/08/30/whole-lotta-mapping/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:48:00 +0000 Brian Jepson http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=389 Continue reading →]]> Tim
Bray points to a
thread on SkyScraper City with a whole mess of transit maps. I
first noticed SkyScraper City in my referer logs a while back when one
of their threads linked to one of the pictures
from my Singapore trip.

]]> http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/08/30/whole-lotta-mapping/feed/ 0 Chewing gum prohibition to end soon http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/08/01/chewing-gum-prohibition-to-end-soon/ http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2003/08/01/chewing-gum-prohibition-to-end-soon/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2003 09:19:00 +0000 Brian Jepson http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=414 The
Globe and Mail: “People in Singapore will soon be allowed to buy
long-banned chewing gum – but only from pharmacies…”

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