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I’m about to put an “Elder Blogger” badge in my sidebar, and I just got this from an old, yes — a VERY old friend…

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Ben Paynter, my younger son, has another interesting piece in Wired. This month he recounts his adventures in offensive driving, complete with J-turns, smashing roadblocks and that kind of thing.

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“…the Vatican’s verification process for miracles is very strict and scientifically-investigated.”

I read it in the Wikipedia.

(With a little hat-tip and a hey nonni-nonni.)

Facebook is good for something. Thanx Veronica!

Out of the ashes, re-emerges the burningbird.

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Berkman at 10 sponsored these essays with the Federalist Papers as their conceit, if not model. A couple of them are really impressive, bringing new thoughts forward and helping to clarify an understanding of principled governance. Then there are a few guys who just phoned it in.

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The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, ten years old this week, has been elevated from a Harvard Law School research center to a University-wide center.  This is a big deal.  Congratulations!

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As I watch him pulling the chickens across the floor, I’m reminded of last night’s dominant dream… Turner was helping from England and we had charts of the currents in th elakes, not a Lake Ekalake thing exactly, but somehow a modeling for the Atlantic, and as I pulled the cord to drag that suitcase across the ocean floor it became obvious to all of us that the weight of the cord itself would cause it to fray and snap. So we patched in some canvas hose, strong material, much like the fire hoses you see coiled in hotel halls in the movies, the type of hose strong enough to hold an action hero as he bails out of the 13th floor window and drops a few floors to come crashing back into a room where a lady, carefully coiffed and wearing a white dress, is eating cake, and her eyes grow round and her mouth does too as she utters an “ohhhh,” expressing her surprise to see a stranger there.

Cathy Wilkes in a 1920’s get-up

So I pulled this suitcase across the ocean floor and naturally it got hung up on the mid-Atlantic ridge and the cord snapped anyway. Later, to continue the experiment, we dropped the suitcase west of the ridge, but as Turner pointed out there was no practical advantage to be gained by a method that required us to start past the middle. Still we experienced a feeling of success since we were able to beach that sodden suitcase on the shore of the lake here.

as if her work is coated in some slick substance that allows it to slip past the critical barrier, taking up residence in the thoughts of her audience unmediated