We needed a system that was open and allowed data, results, and interpretations to flow freely, be checked and stamped with authority, but also to be freely mined using computational tools.
My recent travels featured exactly the opposite problem: I couldn't find an immigration official to check my visa and stamp my passport.
A journey, which under usual circumstances should only take five minutes by bus, one hour including bureaucratic procedures such as checking baggage and stamping passports, now takes over 24 hours, sometimes 48 hours, leaving hundreds of Palestinians in prison-like areas inside the Egyptian side of the Rafah border.
Tickets, $12, can be bought at the door or ordered by sending a check and a stamped self-addressed envelope to Archaeology, Department L, 3636 33rd Street, Long Island City, N.Y.
If you're sick of running out of paper checks and stamps or hassling with routing numbers to send zero-fee payments, you can bank on Checkbook.
She works a few hours a week, but receives a city rent subsidy, a welfare check and food stamps, paid for by the taxpayers.
Mr. Spector later paid her divorce lawyers in nickels and stamped her alimony checks with an expletive.
Check passes; stamp them when everything's as it should be; call the next person to the window.
This was almost impossible in the days of paper checks, envelopes and stamps.
Opt for paying your bills online to avoid using checks, envelopes, and stamps.
