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Sacramento Museum Day 2010
Twenty-six (26) greater Sacramento area museums will be offering free admission, all day long, during the 12th Annual Sacramento Museum Day. This event is presented by the Sacramento Association of Museums (SAM), and proudly supported by Umpqua...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010  |  Explore Sacramento

DepGal, my new Flash photo gallery
Another flash photo gallery, but one that I hope is fast, free of clutter, and easy to update.I created DepGal for my own portfolio but think others will get more mileage out of it. I hope to continue updating it and open-sourcing it.DepGal's...
Thursday, January 14, 2010  |  zokuga

Snowball fight in Times Square, Manhattan New York
I made it out to Times Square on Saturday night and had one of the best nights I've ever had that involved standing out in a blustery snowstorm. I kind of thought all big snows in New York ended up with people playing around in Times Square, but I...
Monday, December 21, 2009  |  zokuga

Moving to Wordpress and danwin.com
Blogger has been great, but I think it's time to start from scratch with a clean template. So I'm moving to WordPress, trying out Thematic, and finally using the danwin.com domain I've used as a dumping ground for file storage.Also, I just...
Thursday, December 3, 2009  |  zokuga

Federal Housing Administration, once an underwriter for the poor, is now propping up middle-class and rich kids: $33,000 for a $1 million property
Nice loans if you can get them. From the New York Times: "With F.H.A. Help, Easy Loans in Expensive Areas" Despite this:In 2007, the government did not insure a single mortgage in this city, one of the most expensive in the country. Buyers here,...
Friday, November 20, 2009  |  zokuga

More from around town: Astor Place, the High Line
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009  |  zokuga

Stacy Kuykendall's confession: The Cameron Todd Willingham execution gets stranger
The New Yorker's David Grann continues to follow up on his hallmark piece on Cameron Willingham, who may be the first provably innocent man executed in modern times. Willingham's wife, Stacy Kuykendall, first believed he was innocent of killing...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009  |  zokuga

It's Chinatown
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Saturday, October 24, 2009  |  zokuga

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Thursday, October 22, 2009  |  zokuga

Texas's war on science: Willingham "arson" case edition
When I read the headline that Gov. Rick Perry had given the boot to members of a commission that had oversight of the Cameron T. Willingham case, my first thought was, "An honorable leader, apparently sensing that he might have made a mistake by...
Friday, October 2, 2009  |  zokuga

The Golden 1 Fall Shred Event
On Saturday, October 3, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., The Golden 1 Credit Union and Iron Mountain will help ensure your confidentiality by having your old and unwanted documents securely destroyed at this free community shred event.  The shred...
Thursday, October 1, 2009  |  Explore Sacramento

Foreclosure Prevention Workshop
If you owe more on your house than it’s worth, or the threat of foreclosure has you concerned, Hope Against Hope is sponsoring  Foreclosure Prevention workshops throughout California. The workshop offers ideas and solutions on loan...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009  |  Explore Sacramento

Apple's version of "Office Space": The Graphic Calculator
"This American Life" has taken over my new iPod and this morning, listened to the episode titled "Should I Stay or Should I Go". The second act features an Apple engineer who, when fired, refused to leave until his graphing calculator program was...
Friday, September 25, 2009  |  zokuga

Kevin German/Luceo Images in the New York Times
Congrats to my friend Kevin German, of Luceo Images, and his gallery of outstanding photos accompanying the Times story, "Threat to the Mekong Delta".
Thursday, September 24, 2009  |  zokuga

Inglourious Basterds - a great American fantasy
Speaking of great movies, it's hard to go into a theater and not just head for a repeat showing of "Inglourious Basterds." It's the best movie of the year, Tarantino's best looking film, and I don't think a home theater can capture the amazingly...
Thursday, September 17, 2009  |  zokuga

The Cove
Saw "The Cove" tonight, a documentary about the former dolphin trainer of "Flipper" fame trying to stop dolphin killing in a small Japanese town. I'm a committed carnivore but this movie me feel a lot better about not being able to afford having...
Thursday, September 17, 2009  |  zokuga

Norman Borlaug, 95, an Iowa boy done good
Saving even one life – or just trying to – can make you a hero. Dozens or hundreds of lives a legend. Hundreds of millions of lives...Norman E. Borlaug, the plant scientist who did more than anyone else in the 20th century to teach the...
Sunday, September 13, 2009  |  zokuga

Sept. 11 eight years later
A great piece in the New York Times, about how New York didn't become the fortress most feared it would become:When fear engulfed the city on Sept. 12, many wrote off Times Square. Chemical bombs were sure to explode there. A suicide bomber...
Friday, September 11, 2009  |  zokuga

The Executed Innocent - the New Yorker's astonishing story of Cameron Todd Willingham
The number of death row inmates exonerated is so numerous, and the pace of executions in Texas so regular, that I just assumed that at some point in the history of the modern American justice system, at least one provably innocent person had been...
Friday, September 4, 2009  |  zokuga

Advertise Locally
There are plenty of places to advertise your Sacramento-area business online, such as the Sacramento, CA Online Community, the Sacramento Classifieds and, of course, here at ExploreSACRAMENTO.com. Another great place to advertise your business is...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009  |  Explore Sacramento
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