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I’m playing my regular Wednesday gig on Radio Riel today with music of the Silk Road, including a particular focus on Persian and Arabic music. I hope you’ll tune in at http://music.radioriel.org.
Radio Riel is an internet radio station that started in Second Life. I do weekly programming as well as DJing for events in Second [...]

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If you’d like to let Jim Douglas, governor of Vermont, know what you think of his act, he has a contact page on his website.

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I’ve been hoping/waiting for this to happen. Harper’s magazine reports that Spain is going after the architects of U.S. torture: John Yoo, William J. Haynes II, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, Jay Bybee, and Doug Feith.
The Spanish criminal court now may seek the arrest of any of the targets if they travel to Spain or any [...]

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Steven Berlin Johnson has a similar take on the evolutionary process of changing the way journalism is done:
So this is what the old-growth forests tell us: there is going to be more content, not less; more information, more analysis, more precision, a wider range of niches covered. You can see the process happening already in [...]

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Well, everyone else seems to be blogging Clay Shirky’s Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, so I may as well, too. I think there’s a lot of sensible points for us to consider at work with our quarterly membership periodical. The take away? We need to do something different. We don’t know (and can’t know in [...]

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Barack and Michelle Obama at “We are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial” on Sunday January 18th 2009. Kevin Mazur/Courtesy of HBO via image.net. Creative Commons some rights reserved.

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Robert Paterson reflects on the John Boyd Conference 2008. It’s pretty grim reading about the state of the world, but he does have suggestions for what to do (on both macro and personal levels).
The search for efficiency and the urge to consume has set us all up like a row of dominoes – there is [...]

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Preamble
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a [...]

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I can’t be at the protest today (I’m having muscle spasms in my back, but even if I were well, I would be celebrating my friends Chris and John’s wedding instead). So this small contribution to visibility will have to do.
The election of Barack Obama was such a wonderful thing. But on the same day, [...]

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, Andrew Sullivan, for pointing out Margaret and Helen’s blog. 82-year-old Helen Philpot doesn’t like Sarah Palin (or McCain or Bush, either):
I will stop calling Sarah Palin a bitch when she stops calling Obama a terrorist sympathizer. And I will stop calling Sarah Palin a bitch when she stops [...]

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