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Then came the habit of warchalking--which began in London and spread around the globe--in which wardrivers would mark the presence of free networks with a strange hieroglyph--parentheses in reverse order--in chalk on the sidewalk for all to see. "The beauty of Wi-Fi is that it is so decentralized," says Anthony Townsend, an N.Y.U. professor who runs a network of 141 free access points called NYCwireless. Even Brilliant keeps his home Wi-Fi network open, and is happy for his Mill Valley, Calif., neighbors...
...chalk-wielding vandals’ commitment to free speech is even more suspect. As Los Angeles Times columnist Norah Vincent notes, the same students chalking their campuses with tasteless drawings and slogans also push for speech codes and steal conservative campus publications from the newsstands. Vincent aptly describes students who defend smut like the snow penis and then shift the debate from decency to free speech rights: “self-entitled, sophomoric pranksters falling back on high principles when it suits them.” Student “artists” of the snow-phallus variety have hijacked...
...which is enough to make most of us wonder why we bothered getting out of bed this morning. But rise and shine we must, as the government likes to remind us, to go about our "everyday lives," lest our economy shut down altogether and the terrorists chalk up a victory against us. As we prepare to face the foreseeable future under the shadow of a terrorist threat, what, if anything, can we do to protect ourselves...
...while Harvey did chalk up a career-high six assists, he didn’t convert a single second-half field goal without Elliott. That might be the most telling stat about the effect of Prasse-Freeman’s absence...
...while Harvey did chalk up a career-high six assists, he didn’t convert a single second-half field goal without Elliott. That might be the most telling stat about the effect of Prasse-Freeman’s absence...