It occurs to me that I haven’t highlighted pictures snapped along the way lately, and that’s just not right - it’s been a vivid if peripatetic season. Ranging over the last two months and stepping backwards chronologically, I’ve been most thankful for San Francisco:

…after drinking up kulcha at the Met like a good New Yorker:

…after wandering and wondering around Harlem:

…after drinking up kulcha on the Lower East Side:

…after getting used to being back in New York in the first place:

Now that we’ve returned to Maine, my camera battery is too frozen to function. For the time being, you’ll have to imagine an icy Portland for yourself, or see what more intrepid shutterbugs are seeing here.

Inevitable? Sure. Useful? We’ll see. Wikilaw, an open-content legal resource, is up and running — soliciting off-the-clock, copyleft work from the million lawyers running around the U.S.

At least one or two of them must be frustrated graphic artists - imagine if tort reform could be similarly explained:

Wikipedia is abandoning the anonymous editing model, after being beaten up in the press recently for defamation; but Wikilaw, for the time being at least, is allowing users to weigh in anonymously.

So here’s a suggestion for faceless counsel: there’s an immediate need for guidance on the Communication Decency Act - authoritative guidance, please.