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7:30 am is a time that doesn’t really exist for me. under virtually no circumstances do i ever exist as a conscious, sentient human being at this hour. when i see the number on my alarm clock, waking accidentally or suddenly in the night, i am bewildered that it exists.
7:30 is the new midnight.
somehow (by [...]

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i hate when I have to publish stuff out of order, but now’s when i have the break, and it seemed a little more important to blog about lawrence lessig when i had the chance.
so. i have finally escaped the northeast united states. the last time i did that was almost two years ago, when [...]

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before boing boing picks it up, i’d just like to share this quirky story with you all.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7629433.stm

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while i wasn’t paying attention, my comrades at students for free culture decided to announce the location of this year’s free culture national convention. it turns out it’ll be in berekely, california, in just under one month.
it looks like i’ve got some work to do.
last time free culture had decided to have a conference, it [...]

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it has been an enchanting summer working at the berkman center for internet & society. everyday, i get to hang out with some of the most brilliant people on the planet. we talk, we write (emails), we blog, we laugh, we play rock band. and when things need to get done, we stay late hyped [...]

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ah the north end. what is about its thin, cloistered streets that makes me so romanticize the place?
perhaps its something to do with the area’s rich feast tradition. as a bastion of roman catholic italians for over 100 years, the north end has long inculcated southern european culture in the very heart of old boston [...]

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