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The Bamboo Planning Project [http://www.projectbamboo.org], which consumed my life from 2008 to 2009 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/sets/72157606216151053/], officially concluded on December 31... read more

Trotsky salad, ready to be served [http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5290/5286980202_632a1a1849_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/5286980202/I recently decided to make beet salad, but managed to forget to pick up every single ingredient in the recipe... read more

Jimmy Wales has been driving me crazy. I've donated to Wikipedia before, and I've been on board with previous donation solicitation campaigns, but I'm really sick of looking at Jimmy Wales, his urgent appeal... read more

Google Ngrams has been the death of my productivity since Friday morning. Google Ngrams are the new word clouds, but more exciting because the output is a chart-- and, as I discovered when I did a mock scientific analysis of university library graffiti... read more

xkcd shirt [http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5049/5205808280_563c7deac0_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/5205808280/This summer, after I had amassed a delightful collection of geeky t-shirts... read more

Here's the slides from the talk [https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ddd22j37_129cmv3d2f4] I gave on the Medieval Slavic Wiki [http://www.medievalslavic.org] at DHCS 2010. [http://chicagocolloquium.org/dhcs-program-2010/]... read more

[http://www.quinndombrowski.com/assets/blog/bing_jwalsh.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwalsh_/3866088899/A couple weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be invited to a talk by Qi Lu [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_Lu] at the University of Chicago's Computation Institute [http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/]... read more

Cyrillic post-it note [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2669/3874764643_44c97b3d52_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/3874764643/Froyo 2.2 brought native Arabic, Hebrew and Thai support to Android... read more

This is an updated version of a how-to written for Intrepid (8.10) [/blog/2010/04/15/installing-cocoon-on-ubuntu/], now horrendously out-of-date. It was written for Maverick (10.10) but should also work on Lucid (10.04)... read more

After seeing a call for artwork for Ubuntu 10.10 wallpapers on OMG! Ubuntu [http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk], I submitted a handful of photos to the Ubuntu Artwork pool [http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/] on Flickr... read more