Nothing and Some More

Taking The Gloves Off

My name is James Landrith. My bio, is available here. I'm the editor and publisher of The Multiracial Activist and The Abolitionist Examiner, two web-zines dedicated to freedom from restrictive racial classifications. In short, I use those publications to rant and rave about the evils of government and special interest groups putting folks into race boxes. While I enjoy my work with those publications immensely, I have a lot more to talk about other than race. Politically I am a libertarian and an unashamed agnostic. I am interracially married and completely apathetic towards those who don't like that sort of thing. Hold your tongue and I won't embarrass you. Ya'll know who you are...

Welcome to the Jungle, James.

I gave another look to the Multiracial Activist, which led me to EurasianNation, a community for people of mixed European and Asian descent, and to The Ugly Truth Behind the Eurasian Beauty Myth.

Also, while reading The Racial Privacy Initiative: A reader's guide, I was wondering how different it was from the republican integration that rules in France. I'm in the library reading. Will be back much later with more information (I read slowly).

What Is Our Responsibility?

Do we have a responsibility to improve the world or should we just sit in our own personal ivory towers and enjoy our pleasures and our thoughts in relative solitude with our immediate friends and family? Even if we think we do have a responsibility to improve the world, are we fooling ourselves in thinking we have any impact?

é or &eamp;#233; in RSS and a Simple Character Entity Chart

Even more RSS feeds: new releases from all the musical artists in Discogs, a site with discographies of all labels, all artists, all cross-referenced. (via TSL)

Meanwhile, in blogspace, people starts to realize that even with google, blogdex and daypop, it's not easy to find blogs dealing with a particular subject. XFML is an open XML format for publishing and connecting faceted metadata between websites (via Surf*Mind*Musing).

Inside Information ( via SiT, its author, David Carter-Tod is looking for a job.)

Village shops in BlogSpace

It is my belief that people online, as in daily life, naturally want to form communities and that, where they do not/can not, it is because of a failure of available tools to help them.

Not everyone does want to form a community. A community is nice, when you start and you don't want to (re)discover by yourself all the small things that make the blogging life better, faster, stronger (blogtools, RSS, news aggregators, permalinks, archives, referers, backlinks, valid markup, pinging weblogs...) After a while, being out of a community is good, the same way the small bird is being kicked out of the nest: now do your own thing.

The Magic of Cocoa, Ivor St. John Clarke About Aquafying Office X and Switch

How does Emergent Music work ?

RomHacks (via /.)

What's Gnu: RMS on UnitedLinux, Free Software

Free software means you control what your computer does. Non-free software means someone else controls that, and to some extent controls you. Non-free software keeps users divided and individually helpless; free software empowers the users. All these reasons apply just as well to business users as to individuals.

And who is Henry Raddick ?