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...Beijing. Ma sets himself apart from the crowd, not only by his choice of wheels - he is the lone BMX rider - but by his skills. He pulls long wheelies, his front wheel far off the ground as he arcs around the rows of large flowerpots. He hops his bike, pivots it around, then starts riding again, standing up on the pedals and lazily making circles around the square, his ears filled with punk rock blasting through his headphones...
...backgrounds, we share a common patio, essentially the only place we can get wireless internet access, and a common experience. While work has kept me busy and isolated from news of the outside world, the fact of the war in Iraq remains. And each time I walk, drive or bike past the village for military families, with nearly every house sporting a U.S. flag, the news takes on a different meaning...
...bike to work at Google, where everything is new and cheerful. But I come back to what sometimes feels like an abandoned village left to rot away. The interns have brought it to light. We have created a community for ourselves that is constantly alive and vibrant. But in the winter, when we are gone and that light has gone away, I hope the casualty count is down, the soldiers are home, and color and life have returned permanently to this ghost town I have chosen to call home for the summer...
...Vanderslice arrived in Iowa in December 2003 to work on religious outreach for Howard Dean's presidential campaign. The job was something of a contradiction in terms. Dean, who had left his Episcopal church over an argument concerning the placement of a bike path, often argued that campaigns should avoid subjects like "guns, God and gays" and boasted that "my religion doesn't inform my public policy." Vanderslice found herself working with advisers who wondered what she was doing there and a candidate who rarely mentioned religious groups except to attack them. "Those voters were a target," she recalled...
...with "friends"--journalists, Silicon Valley networkaholics, a guy in Australia who sometimes comments on my blog, plus a few important people like my ex-boss. Facebook's News Feed updates me on whom these people have befriended, where they're vacationing, whether they went on a bike ride today, and the like. It's frivolous stuff, but you can see the potential of an online world arranged to emphasize the doings and opinions of those who matter to you most. You can see the pitfalls too, mainly in defining who matters. In the world of Facebook, friends don't drift...