• Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
• Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 – with WiFi Classroom
• TearMender – Glue for clothing
• Streaming vs. Ownership
• Meanwhile In Japan: Hot Hybrids
• Frank Lloyd Wright Lego Sets
• Hammer Time: A Whorific Ending – “One hundred billion dollars. Small change? Not even for Bill Gates. For $100 billion you could give 400,000 students an Ivy League education. If we’re talking about a quality state education, we’re looking at closer to two million graduates. That’s absolutely massive. Amazing . . . and think of our long-term GDP growth? Now consider our current spending on Detroit Inc. For all that money. All that purchasing power that should never be “printed” in the first place. We’re supporting a failed business model and prolonging our recession for years to come.”
• Remembering the Attitude of the Times: Fannie Mae, 1993
• Obsessive Housing Disorder: Nearly a century of Washington’s efforts to promote homeownership has produced one calamity after another. Time to stop.
• As the Walkman returns after 30 years, why we’d all be happier if we’d never heard of the GADGET THAT HELPED BREAK BRITAIN – ht The Browser
• The Freemium Model And A Desktop App Get The Thumbs Up With Pandora One
• JBL On Stage 400P Speaker Dock for iPhone/iPod Deals & Sales
• At the playground (ya know?) – don’t grab other people’s children unless they are in imminent danger….
• Super Catamaran Speeds Through Pirate Waters
• Doing Penance – “We are in a sort of medieval mode in which the suspect wine-bibbing, fornicating priest cleverly launches a general inquisition against the use of alcohol and sex to escape scrutiny.” … “The more DC officials like limousines, the more likely they like the poor.” … “But the problem is not that we all can change our minds as events change, or that acts sometimes are at odds with words. Rather the rub is the vehemence in which views are expressed-and for some, the propensity to slur and slander others, and the readiness even to call for criminal penalties. Once that extremism, fueled by self-righteousness, begins, we rightly suspect the virulence comes not just from the issue in question, but rather from some deep psychological desire for penance, to expiate one’s own past sins by finding their new counterparts in others.”
• Your “Out of Office” Voice Mail Message
• The Hidden Cost of Owning a BlackBerry
• Girls Against Girls – Figuring It Out with Bonnie Burton
• Eco-kid, shut up
• Simple Ways to Boost Your Energy Levels
• Pandora One- Better than the Free Version
• The Varieties of Conservative Collectivism – “For too many conservatives, ‘individual rights’ is code for their right to remain unburdened by whatever exercise of state power they happen to dislike.”
• Late Thoughts – “[I]t was quite refreshing to have a head of state not hypnotized by Obama’s boundless rhetoric. It seems as if he may have met his match with Netanyahu, a man who’s country is surrounded by enemies, and a man who doesn’t have the time nor desire to bow down and accept a leash put on him by his naive US counterpart.”
• Nurture Beats Nature in At-Risk Teens
• New Teaching Company Sale
• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Deficit Increases
• Insulin Resistance
• Try the “Tastes Good” Diet – “Did you know that how your body uses food depends partly on how much you like the food? Eating food that tastes good and that has a pleasing appearance can help your body react to the food in healthier ways. So cooking and eating attractive, tasty food will reward you with both pleasure and health.”