Monthly Archives: February 2004

Baby license

No, the Buffalo News hasn’t printed my letter (below) yet. Looks like they have pushed this one ahead of it: Buffalo News – Ability to procreate sets marriage apart. But of course: it’s a baby license. Update: Meanwhile, other New Yorkers are moving forward. The mayor of New Paltz has started marrying gay couples. (Via [...]
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Flower power

This makes me think there are some very cool people living in this country. A nice way to show you care. And as a commenter on Metafilter noted, this would be a great way for a city to put itself in the news in a positive light. In that vein, I just heard the Buffalo [...]
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Rolan the Datapimp

This is, in fact, a reply to a comment made by Rolan the Datapimp (of Orkut mapping fame) in the “below thread”:http://alex.halavais.net/news/archives/000789.html. Go read that first, if you haven’t already. First, I want to thank both Alan and Rolan for great comments. It will give us a nice set of things to discuss in my [...]
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Permanent job loss

Virginia Postrel has a piece in the NYT Magazine A Prettier Jobs Picture? in which she suggests that the death of work is much exaggerated. The Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers are flawed, she says, because the hide all the new jobs (explosive growth in finishing granite countertops and giving manicures) within “boring” categories of [...]
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Post-grad networks

Tom Smith writes about the use of (commercial) IM in a class setting: At the OTHER media, when building HyperIsland School of New Media, and again in Kosova, we used Instant Messaging, as well as email of course, as one of the main communication tools. Using a “standard” tool like IM, means that as the [...]
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My attorney is out of town

Jamie is at the -Atlantic Regional Round of the American Mock Trial Association National Competition- National Civil Rights Trial Competition at St. Johns College. I just heard that her team is advancing to the semi-finals. She’s worked hard in prepping for the competition, and I’ll keep my fingers crossed during the appropriate times tomorrow. Update: [...]
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Trader Garcons

The NYTimes has an interesting story about how Comme des Garcons is opening 1-year-only stores, and following in the footsteps of “Trader Joe’s”:http://www.traderjoes.com/ and others who rely on customers marketing the stores and products to one another. They put a shop into an empty space — an old bookstore in Berlin, for example — and [...]
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