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2006-11-30

Free Education

Opening up the American mind.

Arnold Kling has got to be one of the best thinkers around today. He's just about my ideal of a free-market liberal (though I don't know if he'd like the term). Case in point: his most recent article on education and entrepreneurship (and this one on American entrepreneurialism is excellent, too).

Posted on 2006-11-30 at 22:35. File under society.

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XEP XML

Machine readable formats.

At the request of MattJ in the jdev chat room, I've created a machine-readable list of XMPP extension protocols. The XML format should be pretty straightforward. If you want more info in there, let me know.

Posted on 2006-11-30 at 14:27. File under jabber.

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Jabber Bootcamp

Tutorial slides online.

Back in September, Ralph Meijer and I presented a tutorial (called the "Jabber Bootcamp") at EuroOSCON. I meant to blog this earlier, but our slides are online and in the public domain here. Feel free to re-use and modify as desired!

Posted on 2006-11-30 at 14:23. File under jabber.

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2006-11-26

Multi-Ethnic Mono-Culturalism

Anti-PC, pro-America.

Over at Rants and Raves, the previously-appreciated Stephen Browne writes:

The "multiculturalists" deny that any race or any culture is superior in any way to any other. They also refuse to address the question of whether different cultures could have different strengths and weaknesses, better (or more adaptive) in some ways, worse in others.

I most emphatically agree with them about race - but if this is true then only the culturalist explanation is left. They cannot both be false.

That's right. In only one sense is multiculturalism true: there are multiple cultures in the world. But not all cultures are created equal. Some cultures are better than others. And despite its faults, Western culture is the best. Sorry, that's not politically correct, but it has the benefit of being factually correct. Indeed, the success of so many different races and ethnic groups in Western civilization pretty much proves the point, I'd say. That's why I especially like the mongrel nation of America. I guess you can call me a multi-ethnic mono-culturalist.

This is a big topic, but I don't have the time or the energy to write about it further tonight. More some other time, OK?

Posted on 2006-11-26 at 21:53. File under society.

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Sapphics

Two republished translations.

Gary Hess, who maintains the Poem of Quotes website, writes in to tell me that he has posted two of my Sappho translations from Ancient Fire: Come Here to Me from Crete and Some Say. It's always a pleasure to share the beauties of Sappho.

Posted on 2006-11-26 at 21:27. File under literature.

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Start-Up Universities

Educational entrepreneurship in action.

Manuel Ayau did it in Guatemala, so why can't teachers and researchers in America pursue educational entrepreneuriship by starting more private universities? It turns that a few of them are -- Founder's College and the College of the United States are two examples I'm familiar with just in the Objectivist / libertarian community.

Posted on 2006-11-26 at 20:49. File under society.

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Free-Market Liberal

Newly labelled?

Over the weekend I came up with the term "free-market liberal" (well, there are 19,200 hits at Google, so clearly I didn't coin the phrase). I like it because it helps us take back the term liberal, which by all rights means "valuing freedom".

Now what would be the equivalent term for those on the Right? Free-thinking conservative or progressive constitutionalist, perhaps?

Posted on 2006-11-26 at 20:31. File under politics.

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Off Of

From the department of excessive redundancy.

In this post, the great Instapundit saith:

The problem with the term "Christianist" isn't that it adds "ist" to the end of a religion. It's that, by parallelling "Islamist," it is a deliberate attempt at conflating people who oppose gay marriage -- or, apparently, Madonna's schlocky posturing -- with people who blow up discos and mosques, and throw gay people off of walls.

I can't say that I disagree with him about Islam, but I sure don't like his grammar. "Off of" is straight from the department of excessive redundancy if you ask me, since "off" was originally the emphatic form of "of" (see the OED for details). Sheesh!

Thanks for letting me get that off [of] my chest... ;-)

Posted on 2006-11-26 at 19:51. File under language.

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Who's Afraid of the Public Domain?

Questioning copyright.

I've just posted the initial version of my long-promised essay Who's Afraid of the Public Domain? -- feedback is welcome as always.

Posted on 2006-11-26 at 19:09. File under publicdomain.

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2006-11-22

♫ My Land Is Your Land (Reprise) ♫

The Eminent Domain Song.

Back in May I posted some lyrics I wrote in protest against eminent domain abuse (to be sung to the tune of "This Land Is Your Land"). This evening I finally got around to recording the song -- it's available in both MP3 and Ogg formats. Enjoy!

Posted on 2006-11-22 at 20:43. File under music.

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2006-11-21

The Whirlwind

Jabbering along.

How is it that I've been working on Jabber stuff for seven years, yet I'm busier than ever? Don't you think perhaps things would've slowed down by now?

But no. I receive so much email I can't keep up with it all. Today I participated in a JSF Board meeting (I still need to write up the minutes done) and a meeting of the XMPP Council, which as usual resulted in a good number of action items for yours truly. Discussion continues apace among the membership regarding my proposal to rename the Jabber Software Foundation to the XMPP Standards Foundation. We're working to get an intermediate certification authority for the Jabber/XMPP network off the ground. Plus there's the usual raft of specs to work on, liasing to be done with the IETF (e.g., regarding XMPP URNs), infrastructure to maintain, conferences to plan, etc. Oh, and did I mention that today the jabber.org IM service went over 200,000 registered users?

Sheesh! It's a veritable whirlwind!

Posted on 2006-11-21 at 19:27. File under jabber.

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The Slum

Email delenda est.

For a while there I was on a crusade to rid myself of email, but it's easier said than done. I've been fighting the battle of the email bulge for weeks now -- I finally got down below 700 messages in my inbox but I need to go a lot farther. Plus it seems that I'm now receiving upwards of 3000 or more spam messages a day (and lord knows how many spams "stpeter@jabber.org" is sending). Truly, email is a slum.

Posted on 2006-11-21 at 09:03. File under technology.

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2006-11-20

Got Ardour?

More musical experiments.

OK, I'm not having happy times with Audacity of late. Next I'm going to try Ardour. Stay tuned for the resulting recordings...

Posted on 2006-11-20 at 21:46. File under music.

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Misplaced Priorities

Going wrong in Denver?

From Joel Kotkin's latest essay:

Successful cities like Houston grow because primary emphasis has been placed on the fundamental blocking and tackling of economic development -- streamlining regulations, maintaining sewers and drainage systems, building up the port and the road network. The mayor of fast-growing Aberdeen, South Dakota, says his city owes its success to $100 million worth of new highways, plus a pro-business climate and some of the lowest tax rates in the nation. By contrast, stagnant places like New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Cleveland have poured their limited resources into convention centers, sports stadiums, cultural palaces, or the development of planned entertainment districts.

Let's see, what has Denver done lately? Convention center? Check! Sports stadium? Check! Cultural palace? Check! Sure there's been highway expansion too, but in general it seems that priorities are off in the Denver metropolitan area. And that doesn't bode well for the future...

Posted on 2006-11-20 at 21:37. File under politics.

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68 2 74

My favorite music.

I've been listening a lot lately to music from the late sixties -- Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & the Dominoes, and especially Fairport Convention. But that's probably no surprise, because my favorite musical period (at least for rock music) seems to be 1968 to 1974 -- encompassing for example the first seven Yes albums, Mellow Candle's Swaddling Songs, Fairport Convention's first four releases, much of Renaissance's output, early Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt, my favorite Joni Mitchell albums (Ladies of the Canyon and Blue), John Barleycorn and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by Traffic, Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (recorded in '74), George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, early Van Morrison, late Beatles, Joe Cocker's first two albums, many of my favorite Bob Marley tunes (such as "High Tide or Low Tide", "I'm Hurting Inside", "Concrete Jungle", "Get Up Stand Up", and "No Woman No Cry"), the self-titled first albums by Aztec Two-Step and Jonathan Edwards, and the like. That's not to say I don't like music that wasn't recorded between '68 and '74 -- I love Hot Rize's fine bluegrass releases from the '80s, Hot Rize frontman Tim O'Brien's Traveler, Tim's sister Mollie's three solo albums, early Dylan, Mark Knopfler tunes from Dire Straits and his solo releases Golden Heart and Sailing to Philadelphia, the first album by Rickie Lee Jones, Aretha Franklin's First Twelve Sides and I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You, Greg Brown's Covenant, Dougie MacLean's Craigie Dhu, Breakfast in the Field by Michael Hedges, Going for the One by Yes, some middle-period Rush from the late '70s and early '80s, Eric Clapton's Me and Mr. Johnson, Girl Next Door by Fatwall Jack, Professor Longhair's Rock'n'Roll Gumbo, and more. But the sweet spot for me seems to be all that plaintive, experimental, psychedelic, and progressive music released in the late '60s and early '70s.

Posted on 2006-11-20 at 20:07. File under music.

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code.google.com

More projects.

A few months ago, Google launched its developer network, but I have to admit that I haven't looked into it much. It turns out that there are 17 projects that mention XMPP and 33 projects that mention Jabber. Those coders have been busy!

Posted on 2006-11-20 at 14:43. File under jabber.

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Zimbra-IM

More XMPP users on the way.

It seems that Zimbra is adding IM and presence to its webmail service. Based on this thread we can conclude that it will be based on XMPP. The Jabber Juggernaut rolls on... :-)

Posted on 2006-11-20 at 13:59. File under jabber.

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Creative Solutions

The fate of copyright in Second Life.

Wired has a fascinating article about the fate of "copyright" in Second Life, showing that creative solutions are needed to ensure recognition of creative output in an all-digital world. Check it out.

Posted on 2006-11-20 at 13:57. File under publicdomain.

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2006-11-16

Jingle in Print

A forthcoming article.

I just finished writing the first draft of an article on Jingle for IEEE MultiMedia. It was helpful to write it all up in one place -- now I can see some places in the specs where things don't quite hang together correctly. Expect further clarifications soon... :-)

Posted on 2006-11-16 at 21:41. File under jabber.

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2006-11-15

Parties

Beyond red and blue.

You know the old joke: "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who think there are two kinds of people in the world, and those who don't."

It all comes down to the social psychology of in groups and out groups. People like to feel that they are good and those others are bad or stupid. Thus the Republican demonization of Bill Clinton and the Democratic demonization of George Bush. Thus all the Red State vs. Blue State guano.

Yet as Michael Barone points out, basic party identification in America is evenly split at ~37% Democratic and ~37% Republican. That 37% + 37% adds up to 74%, so the other 26% of the people are independent. And that doesn't even count the large number of people who don't vote (but just might if they were offered a compelling alternative). Notice, however, that independents and non-voters simply don't count in the rhetoric of the Democrats and Republicans, because they exist above the plane of their limited ingroup/outgroup perspective. Yet sometimes to find true reform you need to look up (it's a Flatland kind of thing).

The Democrats and Republicans merely seem to be locked into a death-struggle because they have gotten so good at honing their messages to attract voters. Example: the Democrats don't talk about gun control anymore; the issue didn't resonate and indeed actively turned off the voters, so they gave it up (at least publicly). Result? More votes for Democrats. But Republicans do the same thing, so the party balance is amazingly even. Hopefully that means we'll have divided government most of the time, which doesn't necessarily conduce to greater freedom but at least limits the excesses of either party, thus creating a bit of breathing room for practical libertarians, market progressives, free liberals, or whatever you want to call them (whether they're arrayed in a new party or spread out among the existing parties).

Posted on 2006-11-15 at 22:17. File under politics.

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Planetoids

More Jabber blogs.

Here are some XMPP-related blogs that aren't on Planet Jabber yet:

• Jabber Filaments
• The Online Presence of Mridul
• Mickaël Rémond's Blog (moved from here)

I'm sure that Ralph will be adding them to Planet Jabber soon. ;-)

Posted on 2006-11-15 at 16:25. File under jabber.

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Proposals

Moving XMPP along.

My recent proposal to change the name of the Jabber Software Foundation to the XMPP Standards Foundation has been well received so it looks like we will be moving forward on a formal proposal that the membership can vote on. I'll write that up soon (probably next week).

In other proposal news, yesterday I updated my proposal to establish an intermediate certification authority for the Jabber/XMPP network and today I updated my proposal to strengthen trust in Jabber/XMPP technologies (the old version is here).

I'm also proposing (thanks to a poke from Dave Cridland) that we start using Uniform Resource Names (URNs) instead of HTTP-style URIs for XMPP extension namespaces. Details are in draft-saintandre-xmpp-urn.

Feedback is welcome as always.

Posted on 2006-11-15 at 16:19. File under jabber.

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2006-11-14

A Privilege

Copyright, copyleft, copywrong.

I got to pondering last night about my yet-to-be-written essay "Who's Afraid of the Public Domain?". Advocates of so-called copyright like to think that it is a natural right of the author. But those who have studied the history of copyright know that it was instituted as a government-granted and coercively-enforced privilege in order to prevent competition and to protect the monopolies of publishers and printers. I don't know about you, but I'm not a big fan of governments, monopolies, coercion, or privileges.

To me, even licenses such as the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution License are fine as far as they go, but they don't go far enough, since they still recognize the existence of copyright. But if I were to use such a license, I'd use the CC Attribution License (e.g., the JSF uses it for XMPP Extension Protocols); I happen think it's unnecessary since there are other ways to ensure that one's authorship is recognized (hint: publish early and often), but at least it seems to do little real harm.

Posted on 2006-11-14 at 20:17. File under publicdomain.

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The Bard Unleashed

The Open Shakespeare Project.

NewsForge reports on Open Shakespeare, whose objective is to provide the complete works of Shakespeare in a completely open form. Wait, you ask, isn't all of Shakespeare in the public domain given that he wrote his plays and poems around 400 years ago? Well, not necessarily. The Bard certainly deserves to be open knowledge and the Open Knowledge Foundation is working to make it happen. Kudos!

Posted on 2006-11-14 at 20:01. File under publicdomain.

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2006-11-13

Scaling

Two-tiered protocol development.

Bob Wyman asks an interesting question: Does scaling require protocol variants?

In particular:

What works for light load doesn't work for heavy loads and what is good for some heavy loads isn't useful for light loads... What we need here is is two protocols -- or, in some cases, a single protocol that incorporates support for two usage models.

Of course, nobody likes to define multiple protocols to get a single job done. Thus, you're not seeing a rush in the IETF to define "high volume" or "large scale" versions of the many protocols that quite adequately meet the needs of most users today. But, in the future, it might make sense for us to recognize that at some point quantitative differences translate into qualitatively different problems. Perhaps we should start thinking of serving both small and large systems as two different jobs and recognize that while we have many of the protocols we need to address small systems needs, we still don't have what we need to support the larger systems.

As an example from the XMPP world, we might want to design different transport methods for one-to-one or small-group whiteboarding as distinct from the use cases with 10,000 people monitoring the same whiteboard. Similarly for multi-user chat, publish-subscribe, and Jingle. It's worth considering...

Posted on 2006-11-13 at 20:37. File under jabber.

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Sea Change?

Move along, there's nothing to see here...

Gosh, people get all excited about these American elections, don't they? It's a sea change! The end of Republican hegemony! The dumb American electorate has finally awoken from its Bushevik slumbers! The extreme Republican right has been resoundingly repudiated! And similar claptrap.

In point of fact, congresscritters from the party of a sixth-year president almost always lose big. The Republicans this time did a little better than the historical average. So there's really nothing to see here. And all we did was elect more politicians!

There do seem to be small signs (not to be exaggerated) that some independent-minded people are fed up with both the Democrats and the Republicans. But whether that will translate into meaningful change at the federal or state level remains to be seen. Don't hold your breath for, say, a new party of practical libertarians or a resurgence of the Whig Party. And if you think this is the end of the line for big-government Republicans, check your premises.

Posted on 2006-11-13 at 20:27. File under politics.

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Federating Along

xmpp.net and you.

BTW, the user-friendly public Jabber server list is now pulling its data from the XMPP Federation database and also shows only those servers that are flagged as supporting open registration via the In-Band Registration protocol. And http://www.jabber.org/servers.xml is up to date as well (it's used by client developers to auto-populate their server registration dropdown boxes). The lists aren't completely user-friendly yet since they could show more information (supported features, included components), but that's coming soon.

Oh and if you want your server listed, simply register at xmpp.net.

Posted on 2006-11-13 at 16:35. File under jabber.

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2006-11-09

XMPP Standards Foundation?

A potential name change.

I've just posted a message about potentially changing the name of the Jabber Software Foundation to the XMPP Standards Foundation. Follow the link for details.

Posted on 2006-11-09 at 17:15. File under jabber.

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2006-11-08

The Music is the Message

Social music in real time?

So I've been using both Songbird (a Mozilla-based music player) and me.dium (a social browsing plugin for Firefox). How about a mashup? I envision a Songbird plugin that enables you to find and chat with people who are listening to the same music as you are, in real time. That'd be way cool...

Posted on 2006-11-08 at 09:37. File under technology.

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Running Sacred

Celebrating the free society.

Heh, I got Joe Hildebrand to post twice in one day. :-) He replies to my post by clarifying what he meant:

I suppose I was trying to comment on the things that we do choose to make national holidays. It seems to me that the enforcement of some of the holidays that we have in place is less important to our freedoms than voting.

Some of the current holidays I see as "a time to reflect on X", where X is some set of people or ideals that correctly deserve veneration. Perhaps what I'm actually suggesting that the folks that fought for equality of voting rights deserve that kind of respect; I can't think of a better way to honor their memories than to reflect on the issues of the day, carefully weigh my options, and exercise the right that they fought for so desperately.

I can't say I disagree. Probably I had a knee-jerk reaction to the idea (not in Joe's original post, it's just one of my hobby-horses) that voting is some kind of secular sacrament, when I think it's far from that.

So Joe, shall we have a Bill of Rights Day party on December 15th? :-)

Posted on 2006-11-08 at 09:31. File under politics.

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2006-11-07

What's Sacred

What makes society free?

My friend Joe Hildebrand wonders:

Is there anything that should be more sacred in a free country than careful reflection on one's choices at the ballot?

Well, Joe, I voted too, but I can think of plenty of things more sacred in a free society than voting:

• Individual life
• Marriage
• Friendship
• Free speech
• Free association
• Private property
• Markets
• Voluntarism
• Separation of church and state
• The culture of trust
• Technological innovation
• Every human right listed (and not listed) in the Bill of Rights

IMHO voting is pretty far down the list of sacred values, since it is in many ways derivative -- it's everything else about a free society that gives voting what meaning it has. Especially in the modern world of gerrymandering, safe seats, two-party politics, and artificially restricted alternatives at the ballot.

Furthermore, voting happens only once a year. There are plenty of ways to be involved every other day of the year, such as writing letters to your representatives or to the editor of your local newspaper, participating in your neighborhood association (I run the website for mine), even blogging your ideas for making our society a freer and better place.

We need to think outside the (ballot) box if we're going to debug the bloatware that is our modern American democracy. :-)

Posted on 2006-11-07 at 12:31. File under politics.

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The Me.dium is the Me.ssage?

Social browsing in action.

I've been playing around with me.dium, the latest and greatest in social browsing technology. GigaOM has already reported on it (see also here and here) so I won't bore y'all with the gory details. I do wonder how well it will scale, though, especially if you're eventually able to import or integrate with your existing buddy list instead of setting up Yet Another Buddy List (YABL!) in me.dium. Heck, I have 1300 people in my Jabber roster and I don't know that I want to co-browse with them all... :-) I'm sure the good folks at me.dium are thinking hard about the problem.

BTW, if you're really interested in playing with me.dium, Jabber me with your email address and I'll see if I can send you an invite (don't email me, I still have 1500 messages in my inbox and I don't need more!).

Posted on 2006-11-07 at 11:23. File under technology.

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Spontaneous Order

Visualize this!

This is way cool! (HT: Cafe Hayek.) Can you guess what the data is based on the 3D blobular view?

Posted on 2006-11-07 at 11:17. File under society.

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2006-11-06

Surreal

Local connections.

One of the songs I cover is an utterly obscure tune entitled "Freudian Complex Blues" by the psychedelic country band Surreal McCoys, who were semi-active when I went to college in Manhattan in the late 80s. I heard the song only twice (at the Furnald Folk Fest on campus) so I'm not sure if I've got the words right, but the song is a kind of warped blues take on the Oedipus myth and it's really fun to perform. Now it turns out that Surreal McCoys frontman Kevin Trainor happens to live in my adopted hometown of Denver, Colorado. Maybe I could look him up and check those lyrics with him....

Posted on 2006-11-06 at 20:23. File under music.

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2006-11-05

Got Audacity?

Some recording experiments.

Lately I've been doing some experimental recording on my PowerBook (a few results are here and here). Unfortunately, GarageBand frequently freezes, telling me that my disk is too slow. So I started to look around for alternatives and found Audacity, an open-source recording package. So far Audacity has worked flawlessly -- plus it natively exports to the patent-free Ogg Vorbis format rather than the patent-encumbered MP3 format. Open source rocks. :-)

Posted on 2006-11-05 at 20:07. File under music.

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2006-11-03

Anecdotes From The Edge

Eastern Europeans and Western civilization.

Stephen Browne seems like my kind of person -- a sensible libertarian who loves Western civilization and has soujourned in Eastern Europe (though much more than I have). The touching collection of anecdotes he posted recently reminded me of my time teaching English in Czechoslovakia (see my essay Eastern Eyes). He notes that "Eastern Europeans have always considered themselves to be the eastern frontier of Western Civilization." I found that to be true when I was in the Czech lands. Folks there used to say "Asia begins in Bratislava", which is demonstrably false and was a jibe at their Slovakian cousins (probably the Slovaks say "Asia begins in Uzhgorod" and the western Ukrainians say "Asia begins in Kharkov" and so on). But it captures the sense of being on the edge of the West. Perhaps that means they value it all the more.

Posted on 2006-11-03 at 22:15. File under society.

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Randian Style Redux

An overlooked passage of pure description.

John Enright, in his usual observant way, draws attention to a descriptive passage from Ayn Rand's Anthem that I missed when I wrote my essay Image and Integration in Ayn Rand's Descriptive Style:

The fields are black and ploughed, and they lie like a great fan before us, with their furrows gathered in some hand beyond the sky, spreading forth from that hand, opening wide apart as they come toward us, like black pleats that sparkle with thin, green spangles.

It's a shame that so many commentators are fixated on Rand's ideas, because the purely literary aspects of her novels are fascinating in their own right.

Posted on 2006-11-03 at 22:03. File under literature.

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All A-Twitter

Whatcha doin'?

Twitter (HT: Stowe Boyd) is a relatively recent service that enables you to publish activity information to the web. They recently added Jabber support via a simple bot interface. It'd be cool if they integrated XMPP more deeply through support for, say, the user activity extension sent via personal eventing, but at least their little bot is a start. My Twitter page is here. Unfortunately, it's really just yet another social networking silo -- or, as someone called it at a conference I attended recently, a "cylinder of excellence". :-)

Posted on 2006-11-03 at 12:15. File under jabber.

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