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Connections
> I've had my eye on that state for a while: it seems that whenever
> constitutional evil is being perpetrated in this country, Florida is mixed
> up in the mess, and never in a good way.
>
“Florida and the Death of Justice [1]”
I feel like I'm in an episode of Connections [2].
It starts with Spring [3], looking on the Internet to buy a box of blank
white cards [4]—the type she used in language class years ago. She comes
across 1000 Blank White Cards [5], a game created in Boston (Cambridge, but
close enough), named after a box of 1000 blank white cards (used by language
students, like Spring, to make flash cards) and inspired by Nomic [6] (a game
where, like law, you can change the rules). She checks the site out, and
finds a link to The Boston Diaries [7], which has nothing to do with Boston
except the name. The author [8] of The Boston Diaries [9] then starts
searching for more information on 1000 Blank White Cards [10] and comes
across the Seattle Electric Grimmeldeck [11], which is possibly named after
James Grimmelmann [12], who obviously plays the game and has written an
article about Constitutional Law and Florida [13]—Florida being the state
where both Spring and the author of The Boston Diaries live.
Where's James Burke [14] when you need him?
[1]
http://www.laboratorium.net/FloridaAndTheDeathOfJustice.html
[2]
http://home.earthlink.net/~billotto/Connections.html
[3]
http://www.springdew.com/
[4]
http://www.springdew.com/mimosa/m15.htm
[5]
http://steaky.dhs.org/chorus/cards.html
[6]
http://www.nomic.net/
[7]
http://www.steaky.org/notes/index.html?log=20020316.log
[8]
http://www.conman.org/people/spc/
[9]
https://boston.conman.org/
[10]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=1000+Blank+White+Cards&btnG=Google+Search
[11]
http://www.virelai.net/cards/
[12]
http://www.laboratorium.net/
[13]
http://www.laboratorium.net/FloridaAndTheDeathOfJustice.html
[14]
http://www.palmersguide.com/jamesburke/
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