I've been out of town all week, on a rather important business trip that I may or may not blog aboutlater (I'm not sure I want to connect my professional life to my personal life here). The trip was to Saint Louis and it went very well.

I want to give a shout out to a great artspace/cafe I happened upon and spent quite a few hours in. It is called The Commonspace and is located near the University of Missouri at Saint Louis campus. Free wi-fi and good conversation.

Before I left on the trip I printed out a copy of Adam Greenfield's "The minimal compact: An open-source constitution for post-national states". It turned out to be an inspiring manifesto calling for the creation of a new constitution for a virtual nation. A constitution that is based in spirit and in structure on the Open Source Software movement. A fascinating idea. I passed it on to my friend David Danzig. He was a housemate of mine in Durham, NC while he was earning his law degree from Duke University, and favored consitutional law studies so I look forward to hearing his opinion on this proposal.