Monthly Archives: August 2007

Big Effing(ham) Cross

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Doc Searls

About an hour into Southern Illinois after watching St. Louis’ Gateway Arch recede from our rear-view mirrors, we were met along Interstate 70 by an even more surreal giant totem: a white cross, rising oddly out of a field next … Continue reading →

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Elsewares

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Doc Searls

Two new posts in other places. First, in Linux Journal, Is free and open code a form of infrastructure? How about the humans who write it?. It runs with what Steve Lewis wrote here. Second, at the ProjectVRM blog, Dealing … Continue reading →

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Loose links

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Doc Searls

Timothy Noah in Slate: “Superficially, If I Did It is chiefly an indictment of Nicole’s character and only incidentally the story of her murder.” What’s plugged into the power strip. The cutting edge, one year later. Stephen Lewis: Libraries vs. … Continue reading →

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Grounds for talking radio

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Doc Searls

Day 3 of our drive from Santa Barbara to Boston, pausing at a motel outside St. Louis… Between our Sirius satellite radio receiver, the MP3 player, breaks for public radio and talking to each other, I didn’t have much time … Continue reading →

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Day 4: Going through Kansas City

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Doc Searls

For someone as old as I am, it’s hard to keep Kansas City (the fist song ever written by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, recorded by everybody but made a hit) by Wilbert Harrison out of one’s mind. With my … Continue reading →

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Day 3: Cruising into Colby

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Doc Searls

First we got up at 3-something AM and drove back into Arches National Park, roughly to the site where Thelma & Louise stuffed the cop in the trunk. There, in darkness, we watched the eclipsed moon sink slowly behind rock … Continue reading →

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Day 2: Making it to Moab

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Doc Searls

We almost went to Cedar Breaks, but it was raining heavily up there — and all around that part of Utah — when we left Cedar City this morning. So we went up 15 to 50 and headed down to … Continue reading →

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Day one and done

Posted on August 27, 2007 by Doc Searls

Got off to a late start. Meaning, today (Sunday, as I write this) instead of yesterday. Got as far as Cedar City, Utah, where we’re camped for the night in a cheap but pretty good motel. Amazing weather — desert … Continue reading →

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A post for the road

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Doc Searls

On valuing freedom more than cushy jail cells is my latest at Linux Journal: a last post before hitting the road from Santa Barbara, California to Cambridge, Massachusetts. The post is an example of teaching best what we most need … Continue reading →

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Not good

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Doc Searls

Riverbend hasn’t posted since April. Her last words:  It’s difficult to decide which is more frightening- car bombs and militias, or having to leave everything you know and love, to some unspecified place for a future where nothing is certain. … Continue reading →

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