Layer Tennis Returns
For those with nothing to do on friday, Layer Tennis is back, starting today at 2pm Central.
Non-Profit Journalism
As the economy collapses, one of the first casualties has been the Newspaper industry. With dailies hemorrhaging money and closing up shop all around the country, Paul Steiger, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, is heading up a new appraoch.
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” We do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.
There’s more about the non-profit newsroom ProPublica here, and a nice NPR peice on the future of non-profit newspapers.
Theivery
I met this guy, Clayton a few years ago as we were starting to get involved with the Dirt Derby. He was a name-dropping-douche-bag-womanizer, so we didn’t really hang out to much – I declined or dodged his offers to go on longer rides and training sessions. Turns out that was a good thing.
Yesterday (February 3rd) detectives with the Austin police department executed 2 search warrants on James Clayton’s residence as well as a storage unit that he was renting. At both locations they recovered a large amount of property, some of which has already been linked to crimes committed locally. Yesterday he was arrested on 4 counts, 1 of which was burglary of a residence in Travis County, and the other 3 counts were for larceny theft of bikes in Maricopa County, AZ. This morning a felony theft charge was filed on Mr. Clayton with regards to some of the recovered property.
Apparently this guys gimmick was to plan a meetup, pull a no-show, and then break into your house while you were out wondering where the hell he was and steal all your bikes. It also makes a lot more sense why his bikes were always covered in stickers – because they were stolen. Anyway, stealing bikes is, you know illegal, but there’s in Texas, well, we tend to take justice into our own hands pretty quickly…
This guy better not get away from the cops anytime soon, they will find him impaled on a bike frame, hanging from a tree somewhere down on the greenbelt.
Well said. More here, and here.
Either Side Really
This comic sums up more conversations I’ve had in the past two hellish weeks than I’d care to admit.
Think About It
We Should Be Going From Golden Parachutes To Golden Handcuffs!
– Sen. Kucinich (Crazy D)
While apprecaite the sentiment, gold is a soft metal, and likely to make very poor handcuffs (if expensive) handcuffs. To be fair it’s not a good parachute material either. Points also dedcuted for unneccessary use of an exclamation mark.
All-Nighters
After a careful scientific study, I’ve come to the conclusion that I am entirely to old to be staying up till 4 a.m. to launch websites, no matter how hip and feature rich they might be. Nor does putting your head down on the desk, just for a minute, lead to continued productivityn i the wee hours of the morning, something I should have learned in school, but a trap I continue to fall into. At least if I pass out on my desk these days the worst that would happen is I’d had have “cvbnm” imprinted on my forehead from my keyboard. In school you had to stay awake – if you passed out on a table you risked being lobotomized by the thousand tiny shards of balsa wood that made up your model.
Excuse me while i go main-line some redbull.