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The Way of Man According to the Teaching of Hasidism
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First Strokes: Getting Started in Sea Kayaking
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Possessing Genius: The True Account of the Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain
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I just finished watching an excellent panel debate (warning: real audio content) held recently at Cornell University on the topic of copyrights, intellectual property and peer to peer networks. The debate is long, but is well worth watching as it touches on nearly every aspect of the issue. There are so many interesting societal questions involved in this debate. And what makes it particularly interesting is that the process of resolving the debate will rewrite the social contract between creative producers and consumers. The decisions we make as a society in the coming decade will determine the shape of society for the remainder of our lives. There is little question that the stakes are high. What do you think the new social contract should be? Does it involve DRM? Does it involve some enforcement of copyright and no DRM? Does it involve doing away with most copyright law? What would you like to see? If you could make the new laws, what would they say? I find that, although I certainly have my own ideas about these questions, that I can't honestly answer then without going out on some limb or another simply because everyone in the debate is at least little bit right. So what do you think?
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Recently Rich Kyanka, of Something Awful, was threatened with a lawsuit by the director of communications for the Ultimate Warrior. His account of the events that followed is the funniest thing I've read so far this year. And I say this taking into account the fact that I am now in the middle of a Kurt Vonnegut book.
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I can hardly believe it myself, but my mobile
phone number in McLeod Ganj, Himachal, India
is +91 98170 37006. Feel free to call me.
Due to the time difference, please don't call
between 8:30 am and 6:30 pm Pacific Time.
Calling in the evening (which is in the morning
here) would be good.
The Internet connectivity from Dharamsala to
the rest of the world is improving, but it is
still very poor. It is bad enough that I
probably won't answer my email while I am
here (although I will be reading my mail on
a daily basis). The
progress on local connectivity,
however, is remarkable. Yahel, a
networking expert who moved to Bagsu, India,
seven years ago from Israel, has set up a
wireless mesh connecting all of the local
NGOs in McLeod Ganj
and Dharamsala. It just became active
yesterday and I am using it now. I am
sitting at a table at Pema Thang, by a
window overlooking the Dalai Lama's temple
and residence. From here, I can see the
antenna that Yahel installed on the roof
of the private office of His Holiness the
Dalai Lama. For a place where power and water
are uncertain at best, to have accomplished
this is to have done the nearly impossible.
There are times, though, when pluck can go a
long way and this is one of those times. Yahel
is irrepressible and I'm glad that he is here
and that I have finally met him.
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On Saturday night I leave for India. I'm traveling from San Francisco to New York via Houston on Continental and then from New York to Delhi via Moscow on Aeroflot (Russian Airlines). I have four hours in New York to switch planes, but I don't want to have to collect luggage in addition to having to get to the international terminal and check in with Aeroflot (which only issues paper tickets). And I certainly don't want to check luggage through Moscow on my way to Delhi. That is a good way to end up with no luggage! So, I went to Aeroflot's website looking for information on baggage limits. This is the most helpful thing I found:
> What is my luggage limit ?
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> Through Atlantik - 2 places on 32 kgs. But further - as
> they have entered in ticket - can be same 2 places on
> 32 kgs, but can be and simply weight sistem. i.e. 20 kgs
My friend Greg Walton confirmed that traveling on Aeroflot via Moscow is, indeed, the cheapest way to get to India short of traveling on Syrian Air via Damascus, which (I can say with no reservations) transcends my level of adventurousness at this time. Nevertheless, getting to Delhi should prove to be quite an adventure.
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Seven years after the accord was penned, the Kyoto Protocol comes into force today. The United States, calling the protocol "flawed" and too costly to implement, refuses to sign. Meanwhile, other countries refuse to join the regime pointing out that without the participation of the US and China, the protocol will only harm their ability to compete.
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My life has been thrown into turmoil ever since last week when it was decided that I would be joining an international delegation of Internet and security experts traveling to India to speak with government officials in the Tibetan Government in Exile. This trip will be good for Serving Tibet (the nonprofit I am starting with Dan Haig), it will be good for the Central Tibetan Administration, and it will be good for the distributed effort to bring some much needed security expertise and new technologies to bear on international Tibetan communications. As a bonus, I will get to attend the spring teachings in Dharamsala. His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be teaching Tsongkhapa's Great Stages of the Path. I'm leaving on February 20th and returning on March 14th.
Unfortunately, the trip couldn't have come at a more stressful time. I'm working on a deadline for one client project and kicking off another client project just before I leave. Further, I'm trying to get Serving Tibet incorporated before our grant gets funded, and installing a new server for Pushby with Dave and Forrest (yay!), and helping Buy Blue move their servers to a new provider. I have little hope of neatly accomplishing all of this, so please forgive me for what falls off back of the cart! It will all work out in the end somehow ...
So, that is it. I'm writing to say, I love you all ... to those of you with whom I will miss plans with while I'm away, I'm sorry, and to all of you that I had hoped to see soon, but won't get a chance to see before I leave ... I'll miss you while I'm gone and I hope to see you soon after I return.
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After waiting with great anticipation for the new powerbooks to be released by Apple, they finally arrived on Monday. I ordered one from the Apple online store on Monday morning, shortly after they appeared on the site. For keeping me informed on the arrival dates of the new powerbooks and convincing me to wait for the new models, thanks go to pbzone.com! I ordered a custom configuration which gets assembled at the factory. FedEx picked up my machine in Shanghai on Friday and earlier today, it arrived at the FedEx sorting facility in Anchorage, Alaska. My powerbook will have traveled far by the time it reaches me. It is a strange and wonderful world we live in!
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A recent adventure in San Francisco encountered while walking to Rainbow Grocery:
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"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined
nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and
brotherhood."
-- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), from "Strength to Love"
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as
he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without
protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
-- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."
-- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
"It's easy to admire Dr. King. It's a challenge to follow him."
-- Reverend Jessie Jackson from a speech given today.
Please take a moment tomorrow, as Dr. King's birthday is
celebrated to ask yourself how we can become better
stewards of his legacy.
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I got this from my uncle (no link available):
"I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mind. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!"
My first thought was, "that is amazing." My second though was "spammers will be thrilled!" I know it isn't news to anyone who relies on email, but filters are going to have to get a lot smarter.
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