All posts by Jeff Reifman

Jeff is a technology consultant based in the Pacific Northwest.

New York Times on Climate Change: “There’s not a lot of news in this area.”

Today’s Quote of the Day: [pullquote1 quotes=”true” align=”center” textColor=”#000000″]There’s not a lot of news in this area – we’re watching glaciers melting – so there isn’t an urgency to get things into the paper right away[/pullquote1] – Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York...

/ January 11, 2013

Mashup Culture: Seattle’s Surveillance Cameraman and Portland’s Armed Men Walking the Streets

What’s more culturally hip than our armed surveillance society? Mashups! Nothing could be more hip than a meetup between the Northwest’s most misguided activists: Seattle’s Creepy Surveillance Cameraman and Portland’s armed, street walking second amendment “educators”. What could possibly go wrong?  

/ January 11, 2013

New York Times Focus on Corporate Tax Incentives, Washington State and Microsoft

In early December, The New York Times published a series on corporate tax incentives across the country. They also provided a state by state reporting view online (here’s the link for Washington State’s corporate tax incentives). Washington state grants $2.35...

/ January 7, 2013

“Love Until Your Heart Leaks”

Run until your legs break. Love until your heart leaks. “American folk band Bon Iver asked people in August to remix the songs from its Grammy-winning album Bon Iver, Bon Iver, giving music makers the necessary web tools and audio...

/ January 6, 2013

Snowboarding in Montreal

Really sweet video of snowboarding through the city in Montreal set to sounds by The XX:

/ January 2, 2013

The Lost LA Subway

Having grown up in Los Angeles, I’m even kind of more amazed to learn more about the city’s early subway and streetcar system. via BoingBoing

/ January 2, 2013