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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