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yourowndemocracy is a concept project that proposes a real-time voter sentiment feedback-loop platform merging social networking, direct political engagement, and the design of electronic market exchanges to create a modern online platform for participatory democracy. 

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YOD one of 33 Finalists!

 

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Lunch at Marfa Table, Marfa, TX

 

Willow loitering on my white chair

 

A gift of a tin Fiat Cinquecento from my Facebook friend, Italy-based designer Derek Stewart

 

 

Cousins Lulu Clementine and Willow Lin in Marfa, TX

 

Small Press Exhibit at the Marfa Bookstore in Marfa, TX

 

Little Bear Show on iPod Nano flying back from Orlando

 

Stuffed giraffe and Barbie doll at home. Photo by Willow

 

Sister-in-law Shirley and Lulu at Judd Compound, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX

 

Train Park, Santa Fe

 

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Wednesday
May122010

On Caleb Howe vs. Roger Ebert

Esquire's Chris Jones writes an elegant response to the ugly flare up between Caleb Howe and Roger Ebert.

Some people create. Some people make beautiful things. Some people inspire. Some people educate. Some people help. Some people dream, some people love, and some people are loved.

Other people pick cancer, and even cancer must sometimes wonder why it didn't choose to become medicine instead.

That's right. Two kinds of people in this world, in this glass-half-empty/half-full country of ours: The cancer or the cure. Which are you?

(And Caleb's bizarre apology...) 

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