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  • breakingnews: Former Haiti dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier dies New York Times: Haiti’s former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier died Saturday, officials said. He was 63. Duvalier ruled the country for nearly 15 years until his ouster in 1986. Photo credit: Eliana Aponte Tobar for The New York Times I was in…

  • The Parable of the Workers of the Vineyard

    Amy-Jill Levine has this to say about the Parable of the Workers of the Vineyard in her post on CNN’s Belief Blog. She writes, This parable tells the story of a series of workers who come in at different points of the day, but the owner pays them all the…

  • Citizen Hackers Tinker with Type 1

    This sort of functionality and option should be available right now. No excuses. Then Mr. Adams found NightScout, a system cobbled together by a constellation of software engineers, many with diabetic children, who were frustrated by the limitations of current technology. The open-source system they developed essentially hacks the Dexcom…

  • It’s September 22nd, Happy Hobbit Day!

    In recognition of Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday, here is a portion of Bilbo’s farewell speech. “First of all, to tell you that I am immensely fond of you all, and that eleventy-one years is too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits.” Tremendous outburst of approval.…