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Change.gov, the transition site, has moved its content to a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. So, anyone can use it so long as they attribute it back to its source. Very cool.

Open content is, of course, a creativity magnet. Already, apps have sprung up that let you get Change.gov content on your iPhone and as a widget elsewhere.

A government whose first instinct is toward openness! What a difference a mere 69 million votes can make!

Next: Putting government under revision control, as Tim O’Reilly advocates.

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On trouve des petites annonces chelou sur le web. Notamment celle-ci que je traduis à l’arrache et en abrégeant, parce que si vous croyez que j’ai les références, je vais devoir invoquer le lolus supremus :

Je suis une belle célibataire et je vis seule avec mon chat, Mrs. Norris. Je travaille comme gardienne. Vous vous adresserez à moi sous le nom de Filch (ndMaïa : Filch est apparemment le concierge du château de la série Harry Potter, dont le chat s’appelle Mrs. Norris).

J’ai besoin d’au moins cinq hommes. Vous viendrez à mon appartement. Il y aura une photo de grosse femme sur la porte, et vous lui annoncerez le mot de passe convenu. Vous serez habillé comme votre personnage. Les personnages qui m’intéressent sont les suivants :

- Harry Potter : vous devez être tout juste majeur, et votre baguette magique doit être prête pour le meilleur quidditch de votre vie.

- Ron Weasley : vous devez absolument être roux et vous munir de Whisky Pur Feu (ndMaïa : un alcool dans la série Harry Potter, si j’ai tout compris).

- Draco Malfoy : Blond, capable de pleurer sur commande.

- Remus Lupin : Vous devrez alterner entre homme et loup. Hurle à la lune, baby, hurle !

- Albus Dumbledore : Il faudra être un fier homme gay, prêt à pénétrer tous les autres personnages. Il vous faut aussi une barbe.

Je vous enchaînerai à mon appartement, transformé en donjon, dès votre arrivée. Mrs. Norris vous excitera comme jamais (je l’ai bien entraînée, ne vous inquiétez pas). Après vous avoir tous puni pour avoir transgressé le couvre-feu, Harry s’échappera, m’attrapera par la taille et me sodomisera. Quand nous aurons tous les deux intensément joui, Ron et Draco s’échapperont.

Ron frappera Draco avec un manche à balais que je fournirai. Puis il le pénétrera avec le même instrument.

Lupin s’échappera et se transformera en loup, et il fera tout ce que son instinct lui commande ! Et je sucerai Ron. Enfin, Dumbledore s’échappera et montrera qui est le patron. Whisky Pur Feu pour tout le monde ! Et qui sait ce que la nuit apportera d’autre…
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Veuillez envoyer vos photos, de préférence en costume. Je suis une grande fan de Harry Potter, et ce fantasme me poursuit depuis le tome 3. Je vous en prie, aidez-moi à le réaliser !!

Bon, au lit maintenant.

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Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented.

Storytelling Engines: George Romero’s “Dead” Films

Normally, when I talk about a series’ storytelling engine, what I’m really doing is trying to take a look at a long-running (or occasionally short-running) series from a different perspective. Instead of just seeing the elements of the series as part of the story the writer is telling, I’m looking at them as story-generating components–the supporting cast fulfills this function, the setting adds this potential, the protagonist moves the plot this way, and so on. But it’s very rare that I think that writers consciously consider their status quo as a machine that generates plots.

In the case of George Romero’s seminal zombie movie series (”Night of the Living Dead”, “Dawn of the Dead”, “Day of the Dead”, “Land of the Dead”, “Diary of the Dead”), though, that’s pretty much exactly what they are. Romero starts with a set of postulates that function as his “engine”, and then takes other stories and runs them through the engine to see what the result will be. It’s a storytelling engine that takes the world as it is, applies a major change, and observes the logical result.

The change is, of course, the dead coming back to life. Romero postulates an event (never explicated, but hinted as some sort of radiation wave released by a returning satellite) that causes every recently-deceased corpse in the world to re-animate and seek out living humans with an instinct to consume their flesh. (Their bite is invariably lethal, although Romero never makes it clear whether this is an effect of their status as zombies, or just due to the normal infections that would result from being bitten by a septic, rotting corpse.) They retain traces of their former personality, but generally have limited intelligence and diminished physical capacity (they’re slower, but stronger.) Being dead, they’re pretty much immune to pain, and the only way of permanently killing them is with damage to the head. But more importantly, the event affected living humans as well, even if it doesn’t show. Anyone who dies in the series re-animates within minutes of their death as a zombie, unless that death is due to head trauma.

Romero’s movies (and the various comic and novel spin-offs) focus on the consequences of this event for different groups. He never returns to the same set of protagonists (which allows him a lot of freedom when it comes to killing off characters), but the world is always the same. Humans find ways to survive the zombie apocalypse, some of which are co-operative (as in the small community of survivors in “Land”) and some of which are competitive and counter-productive (as with the nihilistic end to “Dawn”.) Different people cope with the psychological stress of the event in different ways (most of which aren’t good–if Romero’s movies have a common theme, it’s that people tend to come unglued in crisis situations.) And the zombie horde always gets larger–in fact, with the span of time separating the movies, the size of the zombie horde provides the only definitive timeline for the series. “Diary” might look like 2005 and “Night” might look like 1968, but the two both occur early on in the zombie plague.

Romero’s “zombie rules” provide a very interesting storytelling engine, precisely because they’re the only real element of an engine with very loose continuity from installment to installment. This faithfulness to the rules has meant that the entire zombie sub-genre of horror has found itself defined by Romero’s rules and the ground-breaking films that provided them, to the point where many zombie movies are essentially Romero movies in all but name. Some of them are loving homages, like “Shaun of the Dead”, others are rip-offs, like “The Dead Next Door”, and still others are deliberate reactions against or alterations of the Romero rules, like “Return of the Living Dead” or “28 Days Later” (or, for that matter, the James Gunn/Zack Snyder remake of “Dawn of the Dead”.) But the Romero rules now provide a practically inescapable framework for everyone following in Romero’s footsteps, a storytelling engine that has escaped its creator and run wild throughout the genre. Its simplicity is also its strength, something that is constantly proved with each new zombie movie, comic, or book that comes out.

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In a December 3 Washington Times online article headlined "Obama hijacks GOP language on key issues," reporter Stephen Dinan asserted that President-elect Barack Obama was "borrowing a line from the Republican-revolution playbook" when he told the National Governors Association in Philadelphia that, in Dinan's words, states should be "laboratories for solutions to the nation's big problems." However, later in the article, Dinan rebutted his own assertion, as well as the Times' headline, by noting that Obama "trac[ed] the concept back to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who in a dissent in a 1932 court case said states could 'serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.' " Brandeis was appointed to the Supreme Court by Democratic President Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

In December 2 remarks to the National Governors Association, Obama stated:

It was Justice Brandeis who said, during a period of far greater turmoil in our markets, that one of the blessings of our democracy was that - and I quote - "a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory," experimenting with innovative solutions to its economic problems. That is the spirit of courage and ingenuity that so many of you embody. And that is the spirit I want to reclaim in this country - one where our states are testing new ideas, where Washington is investing in what works, and where you and I are working in partnership to move this country forward.

In a dissenting opinion in the 1932 Supreme Court case New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, Brandeis stated: "Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation. It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country."

From the December 3 Washington Times online article:

Borrowing a line from the Republican-revolution playbook of the 1990s, President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday told the nation's governors that he wants them to reassert states as the laboratories for solutions to the nation's big problems.

"That's the spirit that I want to reclaim for the country as a whole," Mr. Obama told the National Governors Association, gathered in Philadelphia. "One where states are testing ideas, where Washington is investing in what works, and where you and I are working together in partnership on behalf of the great citizens of this nation."

Showing fealty to the Founding Fathers' concept of federalism and states' roles in a divided government is the latest statement of humility and outreach from Mr. Obama during his transition. It's one olive branch Republicans said they hope to grab as Mr. Obama seeks to make good on his campaign pledge of change.

"Time will tell. I'm certainly hopeful he will indeed push for states to be the laboratories for change, because they can be," said Gov. Mark Sanford, South Carolina Republican. "If one really believes in change, states are going to be front and center."

State experimentation was the rage in the 1990s, when a high-profile set of Republican governors led a movement to reform welfare and education. Meanwhile, the governors' allies in Congress sparred with President Clinton over enshrining the welfare reforms in federal law, finally reaching an agreement he could sign in 1996.

Now, with a looming budget crisis facing the federal government, both governors and federalism observers said Mr. Obama should turn to the states to lead the way on some of the items on the president-elect's own to-do list of reforms, including Medicaid and expanded access to health care.

"That's how we ought to do health care reform," said David Osborne, a former senior adviser to then-Vice President Al Gore who studied federalism and is now with Public Strategies Group, a consulting firm that advises governments on how to improve their performance. "The federal government should create funding and incentives for the states to try their own models to expand access to health insurance and control costs and improve quality."

Mr. Osborne said he doesn't expect Congress to allow states that role -- "it's not the way senators and congressmen think" -- but praised Mr. Obama for raising those sorts of prospects.

"I find it reassuring," he said. "Obama seems by instinct to understand that not everything important in this country happens in Washington. Anybody who's been a community organizer kind of gets that most government is at the state and local level."

In encouraging the states to experiment, Mr. Obama didn't refer to Republicans, instead tracing the concept back to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who in a dissent in a 1932 court case said states could "serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country."

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Bonne nouvelle pour les utilisateurs de la version mobile de MySpace, qui accueille désormais la possibilité de visionner des vidéos en streaming. Le tout est compatible avec les BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95, Samsung Instinct, j’en passe et des meilleurs (façon de parler). Enfin, l’update n’est pas négligeable, quant on sait que la version mobile du site, m.myspace.com, accueille 3 milliards (si, si…) de visiteurs par mois.

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Bonne nouvelle pour les utilisateurs de la version mobile de MySpace, qui accueille désormais la possibilité de visionner des vidéos en streaming. Le tout est compatible avec les BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95, Samsung Instinct, j’en passe et des meilleurs (façon de parler). Enfin, l’update n’est pas négligeable, quant on sait que la version mobile du site, m.myspace.com, accueille 3 milliards (si, si…) de visiteurs par mois.

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In his book on the psalms, C.S. Lewis commented on the difference between the Jewish view of judgment and the Christian view. The Christian, he said, thinks of judgment as a criminal trial with himself in the dock. The Jewish mentality thought of it as a civil proceeding, with himself as the plaintiff. This explains why the Christian instinct is to avert judgment, to seek a solution for it, which of course is ultimately found in the cross. The Jewish instinct is to pray for judgment to come, for God to intervene, and the sooner the better.

Because we are not Marcionite, we don't have to choose between these -- they are both in the Bible, and they are both in the Bible for us to emulate, each in their place. It is all there for a reason. Because Christians, for the last century or two, have greatly neglected the singing of the psalms, the "Christian" perspective has gotten dangerously out of whack, and we need to learn how to pray for God's judgment to come and vindicate us.

I have commented before that we must not let mercy work slide into justice work, because sinners demanding justice is always a dangerous and dicey business. But this observation is made by a Christian for Christians. There is an important sense in which judgment (justice) and mercy are all the same work, and to call for mercy is to call for judgment. There will be more on this when we consider the pitfalls of pseudo-mercy. But for now, God does hear the cry of the plaintiff, and He does intervene with judgment on the oppressor that amounts to mercy for the oppressed. This is a corollary to the point made earlier about God as the divine warrior. Warfare at its best is a court case that really gets down to business.

Sometimes these things are best said by a string of verses.

"I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing" (Ps. 101:1).

"Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments" (Ps. 119:156).

"And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness" (Is. 16:5).

"And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him" (Is. 30:18).

"And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies" (Hos. 2:19).

"Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually" (Hos. 12:6).

"Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother" (Zech. 7:9).

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone" (Matt. 23:23).

Clearly, in God's lexicon, these words go well together. But when the sinfulness of man disconnects mercy and judgment, God prefers mercy, as we have already noted (James 2:13). Usually when the two are detached it is because somebody zealous for something or other has come to believe that God prefers judgment to mercy. But actually God wants the throne established on the foundation of mercy, so that the judgments from that throne will be according to His goodness and kindness both. It is not possible to seek right judgment unless the throne is built on mercy (Is. 16:5).

One of the most prominent features of God's judgments, as Scripture describes them, when they are finally manifested, is their topsy-turvy nature. We all thought we knew what was going on, but it turns out we didn't. When the Lord steps in to render judgment, to settle all our arguments, and to straighten out every crooked thing, the key responses will be first, surprise, and secondly, grateful acknowledgement that the Lord has rendered true justice. "Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: With righteousness shall he judge the world, And the people with equity"(Ps 98:9). The judge of the whole earth will in fact do right. But when He does, there will be surprises.

The guy zealous for the concerns of the poor (Jn. 12:5) turns out to have had his hands in the money bag (Jn. 12:6). The great martyr after whom we named our mercy ministry turns out to have been nothing but a spiritual blowhard (1 Cor. 13:3). One of the kingdom's great philanthropists will turn out to have been a Marine Corps captain in Iraq (Luke 7:5). Those astonished at a negative judgment against them don't understand it (Matt. 25:41-46). But those who receive a favorable judgment are just as astonished (Matt. 25:34-40). Yabbut, they say.

So when God renders His judgments, we will be astonished. But we will also see and confess the purity and rightness of those judgments. For those who love the Lord in truth, our astonishment will not be an astonishment of despair.

God's thoughts are not like ours (Is. 55:8). The things we tend to praise, and extol, and highlight in our newsletters are things that God finds destable (Luke 16:15). And the things we believed to be insignificant and trivial will be seen to have had great worth in God's sight. We gave that cup of cold water in Christ's name, and had completely forgotten about it. But then it comes up at the judgment (Mark 9:41). The patient Christian woman married to an insufferable man turns out to have been adorned with jewels that only God could see, and which He valued highly (1 Pet. 3:4), and He will be sure to tell us all about it. I am reminded of that great passage in The Great Divorce when the narrator sees a woman in glory so magnificent that he thinks she must be the Lord's mother, or someone very important indeed. It turns out to have been a woman married to an impossible man who fed stray cats out her back door.

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MySpace users with mobile phones are about to find out if they can walk and watch TV at the same time. On Wednesday, News Corp's online social network will make video clips from its members' pages available for viewing on mobile devices including the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95 and Samsung Instinct. Members will be able to look at video on their own homepages as well as friends' pages. The free service will be supported by advertising.

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You know it’s a strange, finicky sign of the times when MySpace announces that it has launched a beta mobile video site that will stream video directly to handsets around the globe — but that news is almost immediately deflated by what it doesn’t include: namely iPhone support and Hulu content. That’s a bit unfair to MySpace, which must have worked hard with transcoding company RipCode to add video to the social network’s mobile site, which lets users watch their favorite community and premium content videos on the go. But since the service is streaming and not a progressive download, it won’t work on the iPhone. MySpace knew this was going to be a big deal and even included an explanation in its FAQ:

Why did MySpace choose to support RTSP-streaming at the launch rather than progressive download which would provide support for the Apple iPhone? Based on research from industry analysts, the majority of the mobile community has streaming-enabled devices, especially in the U.S. market. This is supported by MySpace’s own mobile web site traffic analysis. In addition, device manufacturers like RIM which have historically only supported progressive download, are now rolling out new BlackBerry devices supporting streaming video including the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95, and Samsung Instinct. By launching with support for mobile streaming, MySpace is reaching a wide community of subscribers.

If you have one of those aforementioned phones, you’ll be able to watch videos from the community and from the likes of MySpace’s branded channels such as TMZ, College Humor and VIMBY. But you won’t be able to watch anything from MySpace content partner Hulu (at least not at launch, according to a MySpace rep). This isn’t too surprising, as it’s highly unlikely that Hulu would let MySpace be the first to offer its content through mobile channels.

At the GigaOM Mobilize conference this past September, both MySpace and Facebook talked up their mobile initiatives, though they spoke in terms of communication rather than entertainment.

There was a time when this would have been big news, but mobile video in and of itself isn’t as impressive anymore, and there has been a lot of activity in the mobile video space lately. Joost launched an iPhone app this past weekend, MediaFLO is broadcasting the Victoria’s Secret fashion show on mobile devices tomorrow night, and Qik launched an alpha of its live-streaming service for select BlackBerries.

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