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Congratulations Theme Contest Winners

Apr 23, 2008
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We've announced the winners of our Design to Inspire Theme Contest, and while we haven't yet made an official Team Vox post, I wanted to thank everyone who submitted their banner and congratulate our winners.

Update: After announcing the contest winners, we discovered the first prize winner was not original artwork and was not eligible under the contest rules. Vox member Terri now joins the winners circle as our third prize winner. Congratulations again to everyone.

First Prize

River at Night by Teresa

Second Prize

Live and Learn by Gollykim

Third Prize

Vector Drips by Terri

It's time for a round of "who's the toaster"

Apr 10, 2008
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Ok, first off, spoiler alert for the first episode of season 4, action stations! So this week it looks like we're going to learn who the last Cylon is, well the commercial promises "all will be revealed" at least. I'm going to take that too mean we learn who the twelfth and final human Cylon is and have some theories...

Who I don't think is a Cylon:

Gaius because he represents what man will to his fellow man in his own self-interest. We don't know if he feels any guilt for causing the near extinction of his own species, not once, but twice. Caprica Six would also be free of the guilt It would also ruin the whole thing with Six being inside his head while Caprica has a version of Baltar in hers as equal and opposite.

Bill Adama or Laura Roslyn because they are the mother and father figures and stand in opposition to Gaius because they've put the survival of the human ahead of their own lives. They both believe in the rule of law, they've also subverted the law when they believed they had to and the justified the means with the ends. It wasn't that long ago Bill had thrown the president in the brig and she tried to rig an election. Bill challenges us to be better, "it's not enough to survive, we never proved we deserved to" and while the president struggles with internal and external religious conflicts. All very human stuff.

Helo shows us that love can conquer. He found out she was a Cylon and pregnant at the same time shortly after her people launched a nuclear holocaust on his people. And now they're married with a baby girl.

D or Gaeta, cause really?

Cally for a couple reasons. Would ruin the drama if it turned out both she and the Chief are Cylons. He's now got a secret he can't tell her and makes him different from her.

Kara for much the same reasons but with Anders, minus a kid. I think they're setting this up so she will be accused of being a Cylon for a complete mind-frak on everyone: Anders is already freaked out, and now that Lee is not in the military they have to make him useful with a reason for being on Galactica and being either her defense attorney or the prosecutor, either of which will be awkward. Adama will probably feel he's been betrayed by a woman he considers his daughter, and/or his son, and/or President Roslyn depending on her roll in all of it.

So that leaves...

Lee. Who could possibly be more shocking to Adama, Roslyn or Kara? He's been a moral compass for the president and his father. Everyone has repeatedly placed their lives in his hands and he's come through. Last week Lee asked his father a question, if his brother Zak still alive, but turned out to be a Cylon would it change anything? Well, what if Adama was faced with his son being a Cylon? Anders asked Kara the same question of himself and she said she'd put a bullet through his brain. Would she feel that way if she found out Lee was a Cylon?

I need your support

Mar 19, 2008
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Guess what I'm doing for my summer vacation?

I'm spending 7 straight days riding my bike 545 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles to fight AIDS. On June first I'll be setting out on my third AIDS/LifeCycle ride.

If you are not familiar AIDS/LifeCycle yet, this week long fundraising event for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and LA Gay and Lesbian Center raised over $11 million last year alone to help those living with HIV/AIDS and through counseling, education and working with governments to develop policy that will stop the spread of the disease.

I've set a goal of raising $6,000 this year and I need your donation of support to get there. Every rider has pledged to raise a minimum of $2,500, but I know I can do more because with the support of friends and coworkers I've raised over $12,000 between the two previous times I've ridden.

Please consider making a donation of support to help those living with HIV/AIDS and stop the spread of this deadly disease. Thank you all.

QotD: Meaningful Words

Mar 14, 2008
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What is your favorite quote and why?

America is at its best when given a challenge. I have two quotes that are very much in that vein. The first is from Thomas Paine's pamphlet Crisis. Written during the height of the Revolutionary War,

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."

The other is John F. Kennedy's speech on why America should go to the moon. He challenged America to do what had been almost unthinkable a decade before. This time America was challenged to live up to its potential, and it did.

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win"

Gaylord of the Dance

Mar 6, 2008
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Gaylord of the Dance

Bruising my tailbone snowboarding has had me off mike bike for the last month, and I already felt pretty far behind training for this summer's AIDS/LifeCycle ride from SF to LA, but I haven't raised much yet and while this guy has gone all out with a video which got picked up on SFist today. SFist's Brock goes a bit negative about the "fundraisers that will litter the city for the next few months or so", but with a government that places tax cuts over health funding we need to find the money to fight and treat HIV/AIDS somewhere. So why not make a party out of it?

Andrew, the fat one in the video, works for the AIDS/LifeCycle and hand delivered the rider information packets to me and everyone else who knew to so the money for stamps could go to fight HIV/AIDS instead. Please support the fight against AIDS, by supporting me with a donation.

Separate is not equal

Mar 4, 2008
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The Wedding Line

The California State Supreme Court heard arguments over gay marriage today. Four years after San Francisco let the gays get married, when for a few weeks around Valentine's Day you could almost see that love was in the air.

Today, plaintiffs argued separate not equal, and the state is violating the equal protection clause while opponents made their case separate is equal with California's domestic partnership laws for gays that heterosexual-only marriage is a tradition and important to procreation.

Vote for TypePad!

Mar 3, 2008
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This year your vote will be an important one, setting the direction of the nation and the world. So I ask you, please Vote TypePad!

Many of you know I work on Vox, I did much of the interaction design on it. Well, we've been working on bringing all these awesome Vox themes to our other Six Apart products and instead of just porting them over, we've been working on a design assistant tool to let users browser themes like you can here on Vox. Please take a moment and help us here at Six Apart out by voting for TypePad in the Techcrunch poll.

Chinatown

Mar 3, 2008
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Saturday, Brian and I went on a walking tour of Chinatown and I got plenty of photos. Flickr photo set

Get lucky with me!

Feb 28, 2008
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Get lucky with me

A gift from Daisy. She saw them and had to pick them up even if the spelling was different. I hope this isn't a comment on my breath.

Entertainment QotD: Addicted to Gaming

Feb 21, 2008
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What is the longest consecutive session you've ever played a video game?

I can't remember how long the session was, but I'll never forget the game: Riven.

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njudah said:
maybe she was the one that yanked out Tigh's Eye! read more
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haruszpapa said:

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wholeheartedly agree with your who's not the toaster analysis. on the fence about lee being fifth cylon but to your... read more
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njudah said:
hmmm good point! read more
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Jamison said:
You forgot option c) the Brother Cavills are programmed not to think about the final five and automatically ignored any... read more
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njudah said:
it's interesting you bring up the lee/zak thing because in the non-canon comics they had a storyline of zak returning... read more
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