You know it’s good when someone opens with “I am coming to grips with the sticker shock of hitting my 40th birthday. Unfortunately, I’m 57.”
The great David Weinberger explains the Two-Thirds Life Crisis and how it differs from the mid-life crisis.
Recently in Berkman Category
I find it interesting that John Palfrey is leading the Draft Lessig charge, since it’s my opinion that Palfrey himself would make an excellent congresscritter…..
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Jimbo Wales at home.
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Guy Kawasaki points to some great video clips of effective public speaking.
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Frankie on the “same fish, different name” phenomenon. The classic case is “Chilean Sea Bass”, which prior to being renamed, was known as the “Patagonian toothfish”.
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Majec takes Puskin’s letters and imports them into mbox format, so they’re readable through any major email client.
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Neha is covering this story like… uh, Darrell Green covering Phil McConkey.
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Who knew? Lap dances are not covered by the First Amendment.
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Boris Anthony demonstrates how the Great Firewall of China works. With easy-to-follow do-it-at-home instructions!
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Alex Ross listens to Mozart—all of it. “I transferred it to a iPod and discovered that Mozart requires 9.7 gigabytes.” Great review and mini biography.
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Trying to justify not buying this pen.
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I somehow don’t see the US Senate supporting something analogous in the US…
Or, I was gonna write about this stuff but never got a round tuit.
- New York writes about the continuing mystery of Sneha Ann Philip, a young doctor who vanished from Battery Park City on September 10, 2001. I’ve briefly written about her before. Also, here are two photographs of some of the missing posters her family put up.
- How to get barbecue in Texas: “First, head out of town on a state highway—not the Interstate, not a country road. Keep driving for about two hours. You’ll hit a dinky little town that has one Dairy Queen, one Sonic, and three barbecue joints. And they’ll all be great.”
- The Wall Street Journal wrote about detained Chinese filmmaker and blogger Hao Wu (unfortunately behind the WSJ’s pay firewall) a few weeks ago. I’ve written about Hao before; also related is freehaowu.com.
- And you thought your family had sibling issues: just be glad you’re not the Minots.
- It’s like del.icio.us, but for stuff, not links: Stylefeeder. (my list)
- The Music of North Korea.
- John Steinbeck’s son is writing a novel: “Since I can’t write the greatest American novel, I’m going to write the longest American novel.”
EZ has just announced that Global Voices is growing, and then some.
It’s great to see it grow in leaps and bounds like this.
Global Voices is looking for a few good men (or women)… specifically, a Managing Editor, Regional Editors, and translators.
At the State of Play conference at New York Law school. Fascinating panel on reporting about—and in some cases, reporting from—virtual worlds. Second Life is mentioned heavily, and the World of Warcraft plague got some play too. Talking now about the interface between these virtual worlds and the real world, which I think is a really fascinating topic. Rebecca MacKinnon and Cam Stracher are modering the panel, consisting of James Au, Daniel Terdiman, Clive Thompson, Julian Dibbell, and a guy who’s name escapes me mostly because he doesn’t seem to have a name plate in front of him.
One thing that strikes me is that many of these virtual worlds aren’t reallly games in the traditional sense at all (much like the Sim series). There’s no real beginning, and there’s clearly no endpoint (which sort of makes most kinds of traditional game theory inapplicable).
Notes—apparently a few law students have set themselves up as judges/mediation services in Second Life. One wonders if they’re setting up a common law system or are they headed more towards a civil law/equity-type system…
Links to be added later (if at all).
