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  • Walking in step

    Weddling away last night when I should have been editing the Kāraṇḍavyūha and found a solidly optimistic essay on walkable urbanity . The argument there is not miles away from...

  • Forward in all directions

    While I strongly doubt anyone actually reads this blog, I’ve re-loaded lots of old entries that got lost as a way of marking time today. They date back to March...

  • Old theory and not so old technophile

    This is an interesting encounter. Rheingold is a hero of the technorati and was one of the first people to theorize online communities. His first-person description of trying to talk...

  • Out there, where we belong; near here, where I cannot go.

    In my planned talk, not delivered, for the Newa Pasa Puca Guthi last night, I had intended to return again to the question of locality as a key determinant of...

  • more amazing phrases

    From Eleanor. I am a tiger. I want Tiger Food. Does tiger food look like chocolate? No. Does it look like cereal? No. It looks like this (points to foot)....