In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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tell on gov't illegal acts, get prosecuted. Other inverse punishments:
Thu, 2013/06/27 - 9:42pm — Benjamin MelançonWTO, NAFTA, & now TPP are not about trade or even US exploiting other countries, but ultra-rich robbing us all.
Mon, 2013/04/15 - 12:24am — Benjamin Melançon"Intuit has spent about $11.5 million on federal lobbying in the past five years" fighting free, simple tax filing
Sun, 2013/04/14 - 11:30pm — Benjamin MelançonA great living fight for democracy is taking place now, do not let blackout make you doubt, nor lies make you neutral.
Sun, 2011/02/06 - 12:54pm — Benjamin MelançonA good summary of the people's view from Egypt (by an authentic journalist stuck abroad, Noha Atef)
Sun, 2011/01/30 - 4:35pm — Benjamin MelançonA sign outside the subway station, "No Disabled Allowed," we would denounce, but that's the reality. http://lb.cm/jodyequality
Fri, 2010/12/17 - 12:06am — Benjamin MelançonAnother reason advertising does not deserve police protection: myriad labels hide oligopoly
Mon, 2010/11/22 - 2:35am — Benjamin MelançonA Vegan No More via @stephthegeek –i believe every word. But yes, i'll remain vegan, as i have for 7 years.
Sun, 2010/11/21 - 11:53pm — Benjamin MelançonThe most frightening election result: US loses its best senator, Russ Feingold- outspent 12:1 (wild guess), plus white people
Wed, 2010/11/03 - 12:29am — Benjamin MelançonEverybody, please, everybody, listen to this - Annie Leonard tells us how we can fix everything.
Fri, 2010/10/29 - 10:25pm — Benjamin MelançonIn US law, corporations have individual rights (speech, property) but are not liable for murder. Gates of hell: wide open
Tue, 2010/10/26 - 9:44am — Benjamin MelançonU.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan make a terror attack more likely - http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/15-5
Fri, 2010/10/15 - 8:13pm — Benjamin MelançonMatching funds will mean corporation-funded candidates won't be the only ones we hear in Mass. Governor's race democracydays.com
Tue, 2010/09/21 - 5:36am — Benjamin MelançonNews is what matters. Sadly, evil or stupid media can make news of what shouldn't matter. See
Sun, 2010/09/19 - 8:51am — Benjamin Melançonvia @DJColburn ban e-cigarettes, keep the real killers? @intlvapersclub Dr. Siegel's re FDA Warning Letters
Tue, 2010/09/14 - 4:36pm — Benjamin MelançonPower again! Fixed 2007 MacBook Ebony's MagSafe DC-in with ifixit.com part for 3 days, $200+ off Apple store cost.
Sat, 2010/09/11 - 7:58pm — Benjamin MelançonThe gendered insanity of children's toys IS one of the few social problems that make me want to break out the dynamite.
Wed, 2010/09/08 - 8:52am — Benjamin Melançonfixed our wooden gate today. Neighborhood (except for oil deliverer) safe from pit bull! Went well once i got a hand saw...
Sun, 2010/09/05 - 7:41pm — Benjamin MelançonFox News: Evil or stupid in spreading anti-Muslim hate? [link in comments]
Tue, 2010/08/24 - 3:30pm — Benjamin MelançonCreative process roadmap: "It's not too late. People need potatoes." http://bit.ly/ams27R via @royscholten @reeze @sitcomgeek
Fri, 2010/07/09 - 9:04am — Benjamin Melançonhappy last hour of the anniversary of the last day of British oppression!
Sat, 2010/07/03 - 11:37pm — Benjamin Melançonat #ussf2010 Detroit tech house helping out with http://www.ussf2010.org #Drupal site
Tue, 2010/06/22 - 12:09am — Benjamin MelançonNiger Delta oil spills: every year, worse than the Gulf spill: http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/05/niger-delta-oil-spills-in-persp
Sun, 2010/06/06 - 2:26pm — Benjamin MelançonEveryone read today's XKCD and go outside. http://xkcd.com/748
Wed, 2010/06/02 - 8:53am — Benjamin Melançonmy bad habit: reading a backlog of twitter or fb statuses, opening shrt URLs into new tabs, and having no idea who posted what.
Sat, 2010/05/08 - 6:00am — Benjamin Melançonmoving from one street to another in Brooklyn, just got a $130 ticket for allegedly not wearing a seatbelt (i was). #nyfail
Thu, 2010/05/06 - 8:19pm — Benjamin Melançoncalled out as crazy, starry-eyed dreamer, by a Cuban woman, translated by an Argentine man, because i wear a bandana on my wrist
Sun, 2010/04/25 - 2:56pm — Benjamin Melançonthank you Dries and Acquia: http://buytaert.net/drupal-commons-meet-jive-software - Jive needs its jive talk answered by Drupal!
Thu, 2010/04/15 - 2:14pm — Benjamin Melançondivest from companies engaged in war crimes; stand with those who stand not just with their own but with all humanity:
Wed, 2010/04/14 - 6:03pm — Benjamin Melançondiscovered good eyesight all the work of left eye; right eye is freeloading capitalist. Need eyepatch to make it do its share.
Sun, 2010/04/11 - 3:08pm — Benjamin MelançonOMG it took me five minutes to figure out why the sun feels SO GOOD today-- never felt it on my scalp before #buzzcut @poxyd
Sat, 2010/04/10 - 2:36pm — Benjamin MelançonUS gov't tackles over-imprisonment by releasing informant who assisted in known murders while on payroll - http://bit.ly/bPEK12
Fri, 2010/04/09 - 7:03am — Benjamin Melançonrocking out to Regina Spektor and about to either write a book chapter or turn over the garden. One of those.
Wed, 2010/04/07 - 10:14am — Benjamin MelançonAgaric's secret weapon, the German programmer, sysadmin, and Drupal heretic Stefan Freudenberg, has arrived.
Tue, 2010/03/30 - 10:45pm — Benjamin Melançonon equinox, on 7 years of war on Iraq, walked with 20 people to remind town we're occupying a couple countries and ruining lives
Sat, 2010/03/20 - 3:40pm — Benjamin Melançonlistening to a recording of a consulting call, it's so painful to hear myself pause to think that i wish i said um more!
Tue, 2010/03/16 - 3:06pm — Benjamin Melançonglad house is on high ground, but temporarily changing friendship goals from people who grow food to people who build boats.
Mon, 2010/03/15 - 7:57pm — Benjamin Melançonthanks all for birthday wishes on Facebook (it's like it told you!)- helps keep e-mail under control as life stays crazy & good!
Fri, 2010/03/12 - 8:34pm — Benjamin Melançoninvites all without dinner plans or a desire to break them, within travel distance to Natick, to late dinner @ 33 Fisher tonight
Fri, 2010/03/05 - 7:32am — Benjamin Melançondanced in living room to Beatles' Twist and Shout and Ray Charles' Do You Love Me waiting for 'git add' massive old drupal site
Wed, 2010/03/03 - 11:10pm — Benjamin Melançonlost e-mail and instant message (Thunderbird, Adium stopped being visible yesterday); expected productivity gains did not occur.
Mon, 2010/03/01 - 11:28am — Benjamin Melançonnot for me (agaric remains a collective!) but any Drupal shops looking for a remote / Boston based relentless developer?
Sun, 2010/02/28 - 10:55pm — Benjamin Melançonconcludes that power steering in a Honda Insight was never necessary anyway
Mon, 2010/02/22 - 1:27am — Benjamin Melançonis in high demand on the karaoke circuit. It's on twitter! Twitter wouldn't lie, would it, @ahasaetharu?
Tue, 2010/02/16 - 3:56pm — Benjamin Melançonran 18K 'cause 3 friends training for 5K & @anjalifp did another 15K like before breakfast- trying to match but fun route longer
Sat, 2010/02/13 - 5:31pm — Benjamin Melançonon late train that was to be express to Boston: "This is the local train; the express is right behind us." One track #mbta #fail
Fri, 2010/02/12 - 9:41am — Benjamin Melançonhas four new agile project management books and no time to read them. Hmm.
Sat, 2010/02/06 - 9:43am — Benjamin MelançonRest in peace, Howard Zinn, for we promise not stop working for justice. http://historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
Wed, 2010/01/27 - 9:26pm — Benjamin MelançonDonate where it helps - http://mlncn.com/node/1486 - groups in Haiti with a history of good work and a good sense of history
Tue, 2010/01/19 - 8:13am — Benjamin Melançonjust got go-live approval for (part 1 of) the project that ate Agaric. Waiting for traffic to thin out before leaving Cambridge.
Fri, 2010/01/15 - 7:22pm — Benjamin MelançonHaiti, world's test case. Indomitable people overcome coups, economic war, now earthquake; we all can make it.
Wed, 2010/01/13 - 11:05am — Benjamin Melançonnote to the MBTA: if you don't want passengers hanging on your locked doors, don't pull out when they're running up the platform
Tue, 2010/01/12 - 9:24pm — Benjamin Melançonwent sledding the first three days of 2010. Missed a day. Will have to go twice today to catch up.
Tue, 2010/01/05 - 5:42am — Benjamin Melançonlast status meant no new year's eve plans. 2010 plans include work (Agaric / Drupal) and a better world (Visions Unite / PWGD).
Fri, 2010/01/01 - 9:02pm — Benjamin Melançonhas no New Years' plans which perfectly symbolizes his limitless possibilities!
Tue, 2009/12/29 - 2:29am — Benjamin Melançonunilaterally wishes Merry Christmas unto most of his friends from the safety of having already finished with Chanukah
Thu, 2009/12/24 - 8:51pm — Benjamin Melançonconsidering taking vitamins in honor of Casimir Funk... and a couple months of steady hair shedding.
Wed, 2009/12/23 - 5:37pm — Benjamin Melançondashing through the snow, pulling cars out of ditches and moving trees off roads and giving transport with a 4-wheeler!
Sun, 2009/12/20 - 2:50am — Benjamin Melançonolder brother Jake and girlfriend Sarah just replaced the Celtics jacket that Drupal rockstar quicksketch lost in Paris-- 2008!
Fri, 2009/12/18 - 8:05pm — Benjamin Melançonworking on devilish details of a site upgrade from my brother's log palace in West Virginia- nephews should arrive home soon!
Wed, 2009/12/16 - 6:57pm — Benjamin Melançonpulling an all-nighter from Lazo's Tacos, 2009 North Western Ave, Chicago, Illinois. The Drupal must go on; veggie burritos help
Mon, 2009/12/14 - 12:54am — Benjamin Melançonon train to Drupal Camp Chicago via visits in Syracuse and Rochester with @hefoxed - have room in Evanston thanks to @ceardach!
Tue, 2009/12/08 - 7:29pm — Benjamin Melançonever wonder if a Drupal node had more path aliases than you see on the edit page? no? if you ever do: http://bit.ly/8IMHA4
Fri, 2009/11/27 - 7:38am — Benjamin Melançonthanks the world for unfairly good treatment and hopes to give back
Fri, 2009/11/27 - 7:26am — Benjamin Melançonwill come up with a great word for each letter of his name for the next time it needs to be spelled over the phone
Wed, 2009/11/25 - 6:12am — Benjamin Melançonattending #massgtug #wavehack and trying to figure out how to bring Drupal into it
Sat, 2009/11/21 - 12:04pm — Benjamin MelançonChicago or bust: Drupal campers vote today for the how-to-contribute-to-Drupal session http://bit.ly/53eOWL and I'll be there!
Fri, 2009/11/20 - 6:56pm — Benjamin Melançonwashing dishes after a nice party, after almost being arrested for stalking driving for groceries, after a solid day of work
Fri, 2009/11/20 - 3:10am — Benjamin Melançoncalls a dinner party for this Thursday (tomorrow) evening at the Natick abode just because it is time
Wed, 2009/11/18 - 2:34pm — Benjamin Melançonkeeps wandering outside to look for this meteor shower. Will have to be content with good work and cooking.
Wed, 2009/11/18 - 2:52am — Benjamin MelançonOne Man's Plan to End Poverty: Tuesday evening at Harvard, Brooks House, 1 Oxford St., 6:15 p.m. OR 8:30 p.m.
Mon, 2009/11/16 - 11:52am — Benjamin MelançonWHOOOO! I said that was my kind of party!! Talking dancing singing; cooked 2nd round of food at 2 a.m. Just got to Grandpa's.
Sun, 2009/11/15 - 11:03am — Benjamin Melançonto my kind of party: host hopes South Asian community, anti war, and Latin America solidarity activists will learn & join
Sat, 2009/11/14 - 3:16pm — Benjamin Melançonshouldn't've slept & should've been more productive awake. Happy Armistice and Veteran's days, will celebrate with nonstop work.
Thu, 2009/11/12 - 7:39am — Benjamin Melançonstill has the house all alone for a couple weeks and if it is still standing at the end will consider those weeks misspent
Tue, 2009/11/10 - 11:41am — Benjamin Melançonin Cambridge for D7CX: The Drupal 7 Contrib eXperience, making modules upgrade-ready. Somerville cops have my van. #parkingfail
Sun, 2009/11/08 - 11:29am — Benjamin Melançonwonders if partying on 2 hours sleep after crazy busy week is smart, hiding in a back room doing Drupal until it gets going
Fri, 2009/11/06 - 8:55pm — Benjamin Melançonthanks Drupaller @aellison for sending a #googlewave invite on my behalf! If anyone knows what it is about I'm ben.agaric there.
Tue, 2009/11/03 - 9:02pm — Benjamin MelançonHAS Google Wave but needs to invite an important person to use it! Anyone know how to get there or have an invite to share?
Mon, 2009/11/02 - 11:40pm — Benjamin Melançonspent the extra hour on Facebook... on people and pics from an awesome wedding! Congratulations Manda and Rich!!!!
Sun, 2009/11/01 - 8:11am — Benjamin Melançonneeds Chinese lanterns and money plants for Saturday- anyone have any dried, or know a field that still has them in New England?
Fri, 2009/10/30 - 9:00am — Benjamin Melançonhas the house alone for a month. If it stays standing something's being done wrong. Party/visit/housemate suggestions?
Tue, 2009/10/27 - 12:29am — Benjamin MelançonHondoran resistance to counter coup's fake election: ballot boxes to let majority support a new constitution http://is.gd/4zypF
Sat, 2009/10/24 - 12:55pm — Benjamin Melançonolder brother and his girlfriend's car stolen while they collect signatures to keep smoking in the local WV bar #surreal
Sat, 2009/10/24 - 12:48pm — Benjamin MelançonTwitter and consequences: http://friendsoftortuga.wordpress.com/ Defend free speech and the right to assemble
Sat, 2009/10/24 - 3:23am — Benjamin Melançonsees golden-orange locust trees against a darkening sky; seagulls, gilded too, on their bellies from the sun below, fly behind.
Thu, 2009/10/22 - 5:35pm — Benjamin Melançonlooking at the locust trees, glowing golden in the setting sun, outside my grandfather's window in Wellfleet
Thu, 2009/10/22 - 5:23pm — Benjamin Melançonloves fall in New England: a Sunday of SNOW, and then warm sun and gorgeous golden trees today. OT: RDF is in Drupal now!
Mon, 2009/10/19 - 9:00pm — Benjamin Melançonheard Zoya of http://rawa.org/rawa.html speak, RAWA fights Soviet, Taliban, US usurpers in Afghanistan since before we were born
Sun, 2009/10/18 - 2:35pm — Benjamin Melançonspending Drupal Event Singularity weekend (tip @msamye - Montreal, San Francisco, Vancouver, Hudson Valley) working RDF
Sun, 2009/10/18 - 2:33pm — Benjamin Melançonhome! -- where the recycling guy likes me -- in New England! -- where it is doing a credible job of snowing this 16th of October
Fri, 2009/10/16 - 8:00am — Benjamin Melançonback in the United States of America and filling calendar with Drupal work
Tue, 2009/10/13 - 6:44am — Benjamin Melançonhad new experience of hearing last name pronounced correctly over a P.A. system... thanks Montreal for connecting flight wake-up
Tue, 2009/10/13 - 6:37am — Benjamin Melançon@ianforberpratt didn't explain status but shared first attempt at awesome video reflecting awesomeness of @anjalifp
Sun, 2009/10/11 - 2:55am — Benjamin Melançonwishes @anjalifp good health and good speed in the Chicago Marathon today!!!
Sun, 2009/10/11 - 1:42am — Benjamin MelançonI make a living doing web design and development with a great team
The Agaric Design Collective
I'm trying to make possible a worldwide nonviolent revolution for justice, liberty, and making more good things doable.
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