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[via BoingBoing] Amy Walker was on NPR’s Day to Day in March 2008.

Amigos, I’ve finally put together an online reference as to the precise legal nature of California and LA County law as applicable to taco trucks, and have provided some excerpts from last month’s LA County Board of Supervisors meeting whereby things got a bit more difficult for trucks in the unincorporated part of the county. Viva los taco trucks!

Ivan Krstic: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission. The mission was, in his mind, always getting as many laptops as possible out there; to say anything about learning would be presumptuous, and so he doesn’t want OLPC to have a software team, a hardware team, or a deployment team going forward. New York Magazine: The Democratic Party is closer than it’s ever been to…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on CBS’ acquisition of CNET will air on Morning Edition today (May 16)! It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams). New York – 5 am to 9 am Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 5 am to 10 am Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 2 am to 9 am Pacific – KPCC – 89.3…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the one year anniversary of the Estonian cyberattacks will be airing today. It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): New York – 3 pm Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 8 pm Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 12 pm Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM – www.kpcc.opg Boston – 4 pm Eastern –…

Oh, snap. Chron’s coverage here. I’m proud to be Californian.

After basically 24 hours of traveling from Breda –> Schiphol (Amsterdam) –> CDG (Paris) –> SFO, I’m finally, and thankfully, home. More coming soon.

Friends: Today, I had a piece on PRI’s The World on Estonia’s nationwide cleanup day, also known as Teeme Ära! 2008 (Let’s do it!). It ran on today’s show. Sorry I didn’t let you guys know about it sooner, but I finished the piece shortly before air and by that time it was 10 pm here in Estonia and I hadn’t had dinner yet. Anyway, if you download today’s show here, you’ll find my piece starting at minute 42:51. I’ll…

ZOMG, I just shook hands and got my first autograph with a head of state! President Ilves spoke at the very beginning of a thank you concert on Sunday evening, the final day of the Teeme Ära! 2008 weekend. After speaking to the assembled crowd of a few hundred in the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, he hopped off stage and walked toward some of the standing crowd. He had one uniformed high-ranking member of the Estonian military with him, his…

I’m here at Veljo’s dad, Vaino Haamer‘s house out in eastern Estonia near the Russian border. We were out here today to take part in the national Estonian cleanup day, Teeme Ära! 2008 (“Let’s do it! 2008”), which I’m covering for The World. After a hard day’s work, this is the view from the Haamer farm. Not bad, eh?