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Quick! Someone make a t-shirt for these people. It should say: "Non-conformity is the new conformity" or "zealotry is sexy again!" ("I'm with stupid"'s already been done.) Pride is such a terribly dangerous thing. And too often people confuse pride...

Just launched Howard Rheingold's SmartMobs redesign. Work on this started months ago and Howard was patient enough to wait through my completing other jobs. I'm quite happy with this redesign. I'd say it's a "Boris-flavored mash-up of Khoi Vinh and...

I'm poking around Nokia trying to decide between an N70 or N80, but that's not the point. I called up the Nokia main portal page, then moved my attention over to something else for a moment, and in so doing...

Flexible hipster... ;)...

I just came across this interview with Joi done in 1995. Reading it I am struck by a few things: - 10 years ago Joi was roughly my age. - He saw very very clearly what was going on, on...

(written on thursday... i think...) This morning I got a handshake for a lease to be signed this weekend for an office which i will take possession of in two weeks. It's 300 square feet, 3 blocks from home...

Should be interesting....

We have 6 processions of honking cars a day during World Cup here. How about you? (Could also be titled "How many World Cup monkey fans live in your city?")...

For anyone trying to call me: no phone. I left my charger in San Francisco (!) and Aaron's apparently been busy. Perhaps now's a good time to get a new one... Update: Still no phone, and to make matters worse,...

So we just turned on the newly designed Creative Commons Japan website. There's prolly a few details to tweak and things will need to be adjusted in the coming months but hey that's what maintenance agreements are for! hint. hint....

My friend Marvin, whom I met at the Global Voices conference in London last december, sent me an email the other day. Amongst other things he shared this: I wanted to tell you of my success in being accepted...

My motor-memory of which way to turn the taps in my shower to regulate water temperature... is gone. Conversely, my motor-memory of how to quickly zig-zag my way up through traffic on The Main... is still full in effect. Thankfully....

About to settle into my last night in Tokyo. Three months. In 24 hours I am over the Pacific again, heading back to Montreal. I feel anxious anticipation; I wonder how I will react to diving back into my old...

Some reporterOriginally uploaded by Mezito.I see at least 4 layers of reality in this photo. How about you?(There are many more of course, but not directly portrayed, or even portrayable, at least not easily/cheaply, yet...)...

Barlow had these lines in a recent email about a friend of his' death: Fighting clinical depression is inevitably a lonely struggle. What could be less conducive to compassion than a disease that make you whine? Laymen and loved ones...

An email confirming an IRC meeting made me realise my June 12th flight "home"... is on MONDAY. Monday, not Tuesday as I thought it was. Not Tuesday as I had planned for it being. Not Tuesday as I had worked...

Actually, new bag. Thank you for suggestion of Sudahanp, Hiromi. (The title of this entry is an inside joke between some old old friends of mine back home. It is said with a heavy french canadian accent and is...

Original by cr2joe. For as long as I can remember now--memory fails when the brain is deprived of oxygen--I've been stuck in an unrelenting onslaught of waves. Each set is unaware of the sets before it, the sets coming...

So if you see this, it means the move went well and we are live from my new server. Big.Evil.Grin....