Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton

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From Blogging to Publishing
 
Oh Oh, They Got Me!  Google SMS
 
Government: When Does Community Support Become Partisan?
 
Space-Age Meter Reader
 
Hugging the Monorail: Counting Noses
 
Seattle: Hugging the Monorail
 
Education: What Does Student-Centric Look Like?
 
Seattle: Through New Eyes
 
What did you do in the electoral wars of 2004, Daddy?
 
Dave's Welcome to Rain City

Our Kids Are in Big Trouble

Wired Issue 12.10: Government is using technology to burden their future - and it's all our fault.  Lawrence Lessig has gotten to the heart of how we are living and the deterioration of political will that goes with it.  It is simple: the future can't vote.  It's not that we are spending them into incurable debt, its that we are creating a world that we don't have to live in.  And wouldn't choose to.  If the key to immortality is living a life worth remembering, how will the children of the earth remember us?

Thanks for the link from Sean from Scoble.

now reading:

Ed McBain Hark! a novel of the 87th precinct.  I love procedurals, and the 87th precinct is like Hill Street Blues for the eyes and brain.  The gang is all here, as weirdly funny and touching as ever, with characters drawn in a way that has me care what happens to them, even (sometimes especially) Fat Ollie.  I'm even curious about the fate of the Deaf Man (my first encounter with Steve Carella's Moriarty, it seems).  In this one we see what I suspect is close to the reality of police work:  An accidental solution to a lingering mystery as well as missed opportunities and incomplete communication leaving greater crimes unresolved.  Will Ollie ever learn to play Spanish Eyes?  Stay tuned.

posted by orcmid at 10/25/2004 08:12:30 PM