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NY Velocity – New York bike racing culture, news and events

I should add NY Velocity to my blogroll… by far the wittiest account of the subject and especially of the Lance. I think without question The Lance was a prodigy. 

On Our Radar: Nations Race to Carve Up Arctic – NYTimes.com.

And why is there not a flood of science fiction works on this matter? There will be wars, visible or not, bloody or not.

Harper wins majority, CBC projects – Canada Votes 2011 – CBC News.

This is bleak news indeed. Only good part is that Layton is now the Opposition, not Ignatieff.

The Civil War – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com.

The NY Times’ timeline is really very useful; and important in this year.

Cool, in watching online the CBS 60 minutes interview of Assange, I learned that he went to 37 different schools. (Not sure if that includes colleges/unis). That trumps my number: 22 (or 23) not counting college, grad school. And he seemed to have had an even more itinerant upbringing than we did….

The Haves and the Have-Nots – NYTimes.com.

It’s easy to forget, at least for those coming from rich locations, just how much wealth is required to enable something like open source development, at least that using the Internet and ICT. It’s a little counter-intuitive: community, the commons, all these things that characterise open source work, ought not to require wealth. But they do. One needs the infrastructure for it, for starters, even if that infrastructure does not copy the 20th century West’s. One needs, more importantly, the temporal luxury of being able to say, I shall work on this, not that; I shall choose not be chosen. And that kind of wealth is huge and nearly invisible–unless one is a political or social minority, where the wealth of saying, I choose, is ever present.

Microcredit: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

A fairly decent article… and it naturally–this is after all, Korten writing–raises the issue of what counts, what makes up a community. Local communities are geographically determined; but must all communities then be of that shape? Obviously, I think not. But then what configures a non-local community? What orders it, enables determines it and its boundaries and striations?

Geist: Location matters up in the cloud – thestar.com