http://www.portlandmercury.com Portland Mercury en-us Copyright 2009 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:30:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Magic Gardens. by Viva Las Vegas IT WAS MY THIRD DAY as a data-entry temp for the City of Portland. I spent eight hours entering things like JX167HJ50 into the appropriate spaces of computerized spreadsheets. XC90FH23 <tab> <tab> 1/13/96 <tab> <tab> F2HU33M <tab> <tab> C66 <return>. For all I knew I was dropping bombs on North Korea and turning large tracts of prairie into Walmarts. It didn't feel like honest work in pursuit of beauty and truth, that's for sure. At least it was only a…]]> [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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