DonkeyXote tells all

Demonstrators offer biscuits to passers-by. One of their placards reads: “We have cake, they have lies.”

When I asked the police on Saturday if they were expecting trouble, one laughed. “They aren't a problem,” he said. “I just wish that they'd stop playing that bloody Rick Astley song.”

Nothing too unique here but the source: Prospect is a UK-based "high culture" magazine similar to the Atlantic Monthly or Harper's. So the fact that they're publishing a sympathetic article on gaming is interesting.

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10209

I'm sitting in EWR (Newark Airport, yes I'm one of those people who refers to airports by their codes) returning from a day-long session dealing with legal stuff and mass collaboration technologies. (*) That's a fancypants way to say I was in a boardroom with a bunch of lawyers and consultants working on how to use blogs and wikis to benefit companies. Looking at it basically from two directions: what legal issues arise when employees are speaking to the world and how can in-house counsel manage these, and how can we leverage these technologies in our practice to make dealing with the legal department a less frustrating task.

Can't say much about what we're going to conclude (too early in the process) but it was definitely an interesting day. Sometimes I forget how to behave among grownups. I think I didn't humiliate Microsoft too much. (For me personally, there is no hope).

Oh, the singularity? That's the city of Newark. I think now that I've been here I will have to re-evaluate my feelings about Buffalo and Pittsburgh as I was obviously too hard on them before. I think all the suck in the universe might have collected itself here.

(*) Okay, technically I'm going to have to post this when I get network connectivity so I won't be in Newark when it posts. It just feels right now like I'm never getting out of here.