Posted on August 31 at 9:46 p.m.

Soul: Ray Charles, "Mess Around"

Jazz (male vocal): Will Young, "All The Things You Are"

Jazz (hard bop): Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, "Moanin'"

Bossa nova: Getz/Gilberto, "Corcovado"

Undefinable: Billy Q. Effinger, "Warlock Supreme"

On List time (Cup o' Joel)

Posted on December 30 at 12:10 p.m.

New York pizza is a good snack. But not a meal.

On 10 thoughts right before the long holiday weekend (Cup o' Joel)

Posted on November 2 at 5:01 p.m.

I voted on an antiquated punchcard here in Chicago, where I waited in line for just under an hour. Thankfully, everybody was patient; I saw only one person leave early -- a suitcase-toting lady who had a plane to catch in two hours.

I'm curious to read how voting went in Lawrence.

On /feedback/2004/nov/election_day/ -- Election Day 2004 feedback

Posted on August 23 at 10:22 p.m.

Thanks for all the great input, guys. We've taken your comments to heart and removed the karma stuff from lawrence.com blogs.

We're still keeping the "Was this a good comment?" functionality on other comment-enabled parts of the site, such as movie reviews, where the comments are less of a conversation and moreso standalone pieces. In those cases, we'll soon begin to offer a way of displaying the reviews in order by their rank (e.g. "Sort these reviews by most popular"), which we think would be a useful feature to have.

On Introducing karma (Behind the Scenes)

Posted on August 20 at 4:57 p.m.

We've changed it to the deliberately-vague "Good comment?" Thoughts?

On Introducing karma (Behind the Scenes)

Posted on August 20 at 2:51 p.m.

Yeah, combatting the cliquishness is key...We're going to roll in some safeguards in karma calculation that will attempt to avoid that, but we can't explain the techniques too much or they'll be abused. :-)

Like Simon said above, this is all still in the experimental stage, so we'll constantly be tweaking it.

On Introducing karma (Behind the Scenes)

Posted on August 20 at 2:08 p.m.

Good point about the comments being a bit harder to read. We'd love to hear more feedback about how it could be improved. One thing we've been considering is putting all the karma stuff in a left column, bulletin-board style, and putting the comments themselves in a right column.

On Introducing karma (Behind the Scenes)

Posted on August 20 at 1:24 p.m.

1981: It's not possible to vote for yourself, which is why you didn't see the voting thing for your own.

On Introducing karma (Behind the Scenes)

Posted on October 14 at midnight

Sure, it's a chain, but the food is high-quality and portions are huge. Recommended.

On First Watch Restaurant

Posted on October 14 at midnight

Chain or not, this is the best pizza in town. You can't beat Chicago-style deep-dish. This puts Rudy's, Papa Keno's, et al, to shame. Come hungry.

Disclaimer: I'm a Chicago native.

On Pizzeria Uno Chicago Bar & Grill