I’m Ben. I work on Dabble DB, Trendly, Vote Track OR, and the Bus Project. Follow me on Twitter, if you like. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-440184-4"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @matasar)http://blog.matasar.org/<p>RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/colsonwhitehead">colsonwhitehead</a>: Tonite on #LOST: “Do this.” “Tell me why.” “I’ll tell you after you do it.” Later: “Okay, tell me.” “Run! Smoke Mon …</p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/437782607http://blog.matasar.org/post/437782607Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:20:08 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz1h1aplGC1qzncmoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.life.com/image/97569175">Chloe Sevigny, Lou Reed - Celebrities Attend Atlanta Hawks Vs New York Knicks</a></p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/437731057http://blog.matasar.org/post/437731057Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:53:34 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz0w20ks7K1qzncmoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/03/chart-of-the-day-3.php">Matthew Yglesias » Chart of the Day</a></p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/437033112http://blog.matasar.org/post/437033112Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:20:24 -0800<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars">Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love</a>http://blog.matasar.org/post/430627696http://blog.matasar.org/post/430627696Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:33:27 -0800<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8227610&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8227610&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8227610&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8227610">Introduction Video on Vimeo</a> (via <a href="http://vimeo.com/8227610">Vimeo</a>)</p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/427251353http://blog.matasar.org/post/427251353Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:26:32 -0800““I will take our troops out of the war zone and put them into space!””<br/><br/> - <em>Kesha Rogers, via <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/i_will_take_our_troops_out_of.html">Ezra Klein</a></em>http://blog.matasar.org/post/427241510http://blog.matasar.org/post/427241510Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:21:18 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8UYa6gQC14o&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8UYa6gQC14o&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UYa6gQC14o">Why Larry Ellison hates Cloud computing</a></p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/427218872http://blog.matasar.org/post/427218872Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:09:23 -0800<a href="http://pivotprogress.com/state/index.php">Oregon Budget Browser</a>http://blog.matasar.org/post/426971406http://blog.matasar.org/post/426971406Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:53:10 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iXT2E9Ccc8A&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iXT2E9Ccc8A&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A">Salvador Dali on “What’s My Line?”</a></p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/425006494http://blog.matasar.org/post/425006494Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:51:20 -0800<p>RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/dabbledb">dabbledb</a>: Unbelievable. Spammers are actually emailing us to complain that they can’t easily spread spam on our users’ forum.</p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/424979941http://blog.matasar.org/post/424979941Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:35:18 -0800Tim: Do you suppose this is what hell is like?<br /> Me: What, metaprogramming in Ruby?<br /> Tim: Yeah.http://blog.matasar.org/post/424691769http://blog.matasar.org/post/424691769Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:45:44 -0800<p>RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/gruber">gruber</a>: I’m sure they exist, but I’ve never met a good programmer who thinks software patents are a good thing. Not one.</p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/423279469http://blog.matasar.org/post/423279469Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:52:38 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/O3ZOKDmorj0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/O3ZOKDmorj0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ZOKDmorj0">Biblical Proportions</a></p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/422839609http://blog.matasar.org/post/422839609Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:17:37 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qybUFnY7Y8w&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qybUFnY7Y8w&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w">OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version</a> (via <a href="http://youtube.com/user/OkGo">OkGo</a>)</p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/422334075http://blog.matasar.org/post/422334075Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:50:20 -0800<p>RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/patrickc">patrickc</a>: Apart from my email, calls, texts, web searches, docs, chat history and location I don’t think Google has *that* much data …</p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/421138219http://blog.matasar.org/post/421138219Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:58:31 -0800<p>Jim Bunning was a helluva pitcher.</p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/421138227http://blog.matasar.org/post/421138227Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:58:31 -0800<p>I suppose this Playstation 3 problem is my punishment for ridiculing the Zune. #fb</p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/421138236http://blog.matasar.org/post/421138236Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:58:31 -0800<p>RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/RiversCuomo">RiversCuomo</a>: What could be more natural than becoming irrelevant to pop culture as you get older?</p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/421138245http://blog.matasar.org/post/421138245Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:58:31 -0800<p>RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/RosenbaumSteve">RosenbaumSteve</a>: This morning at 9:00am, Oregon’s online voter registration system went live at <a href="http://www.oregonvotes.org">www.oregonvotes.org</a></p>http://blog.matasar.org/post/421138240http://blog.matasar.org/post/421138240Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:58:31 -0800<a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bunniji01.shtml">Jim Bunning Statistics and History</a>http://blog.matasar.org/post/420844395http://blog.matasar.org/post/420844395Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:41:32 -0800