Entries by wadeferd

Romney’s America

I think that cutting 33 million of your fellow citizens off from affordable care is the kind of future we are looking for in this country.

Antartica

Google Streetview at the South pole. Reminds me of the google of old – Neat stuff for sake of being neat.

Texas Cares

Coming on the heels of Texas being ranked last in service delivery in the country (yes, behind Oklahoma, Mississipi and Arkansas), and a sharp decline in Medicaid acceptance, the governor in has decided to go ahead and turn down millions of matching dollars in medicaid funding. Keep in mind this doesn’t mean Texas won’t participate in […]

Affordable Care

Thieves are dumb – lets just establish that as a ground-rule for this post. When an asshole spends what appears to be a significant amount of time and energy ripping a really crappy TV out of the wall, after you’ve painstakingly routed cables, tearing a massive hole in the sheetrock – all because he didn’t stop to unscrew the VGA cable? Well […]

The Intersection of This Way and Any Way

I grew up in a town of notoriously confusing street names. I remember distinctly writing down directions like “Take Any Way, to That Way, left on Oyster Creek Drive and right on Circle Way… ” When is the last time anyone took down directions on pen and paper? In the Hyper-geo-located post-iphone/android world amateur cartographic way-finding is becoming a lost art. The future of the coordinate-grid-for-the-air-strike-is-the-the-same-as-your-zipcode […]

The $6 Billion Radio

From the attempting to solve problems we didn’t know had department, comes the Army’s one-size-doesnt-fit-all, universal radio. In 1997, the Defense Department began its quest for the perfect family of radios: software-defined radios that, like computers, could be reprogrammed for different missions and could communicate with everything the US military used. Digital signal processing could […]

Etsy Hackers

Very cool to see companies like 37signals step up to the plate to close the gender gap in programing.