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Posts from March 2006

The Death of Digital Anarchy

We’re long past the frontier days of the world wide web, when the network teemed with pasty social outcasts projecting their disembodied essences into the dark alleys of a virtual world that, at the time, consisted of nothing but dark alleys. Many of these pioneers were libertarian and iconoclastic both by nature and by necessity, [...]


I Belong To The City

I’m sitting in a strange Starbucks in a strange city watching strange people in suits and ties and sensible shoes glare impatiently at three beleaguered barristas behind the counter. The line of customers goes out the door. There’s a franticness about the city coffee delivery system that differs in both kind and degree from the [...]