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I just finished reading The Island of Lost Maps, by Miles Harvey. It is ostensibly about Gilbert Bland, the con man who stole maps out of centuries-old books stored in libraries around the country. But it’s really just a great read — about the history of maps, the author’s own obsession with maps, the influence…

Post your captions in the comments. Have fun. And remember, folks… no wagering.

Many thanks to Darcy Evon, CEO at I-Street.com who happened to snap this picture of my wife and I with Governor Dean last night while the official photographer was taking her photo. That one will have us looking at the camera, but Darcy was kind enough to e-mail me a copy of her pic so…

For the lawyer types reading this, you should check out the latest issue of the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology. It includes articles on: California’s Database Breach Notification Security Act: The First State Breach Notification Law is Not Yet a Suitable Template For National Identity Theft Legislation (HTML, PDF) Towards a Theory of Cyberplace:…

Courtesy of Jim in my comments, I just found out that Gregg Easterbrook has posted an update about the status of TMQ. While we wait for TMQ to return (I’ll gladly offer this website as a home, though I doubt I quite qualify for “prominent website” status, which Gregg seems to have set as a…

Though my wife and I couldn’t attend this event (it was my birthday, and we’d already made plans), the DuPage for Dean crowd had a great time Saturday night. Organized by Karen and Doug Henk (Karen heads up volunteering efforts for us in DuPage), this was an innovative outreach event that I think would work…

Saw a lot of familiar faces tonight at the Civic Opera House, where several hundred people raised a lot of money for Governor Dean’s campaign. In many ways, it’s reassuring to see several of the same people who have been with the campaign in Illinois since the early days this year. Also exciting was to…

I’m writing an article about social networking and the crop of sites that are gaining some attention lately (Spoke, LinkedIn, Ryze, Tribe, and ZeroDegrees). As a teaser, I wanted to write about the original Oracle of Bacon developed by a couple of grad students at UVa. Here’s the shocking thing: Kevin Bacon isn’t even among…

Twelve days since John’s last post. Anyone heard from him?

I hadn’t seen this discussed elsewhere: Upcoming.org — an RSS-driven calendar service that lets you post an RSS version of your calendar to your weblog. Simple idea, great execution. Look for an upcoming nugget on the sidebar soon… Update 8:10pm: OK, so I probably should have played with this before posting about it. I was…