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Interesting commentary on a new book by Harvey Silvergate called “Three Felonies a Day”. The article also touches on the notion that “Under the English common law that we inherited, a crime requires intent.”, saying: *...
Read more →We saw the “Jersey Boys” musical in Chicago last night. It’s a lot of fun, even though the sound system at the “Bank of America Theatre” wasn’t up to par. Actually it was pretty awful. The music is great and the story is inter...
Read more →I wrote about the Mint/Intuit deal the other day. Being an avid user, I had mixed feelings about this development. I came across this good post about the transaction, which...
Read more →Just found out that the WebInno group is back in session after a summer hiatus. This is one of the best open meetings for techies and entrepreneurs to meet and talk and see each other’s stuff. Here’s the official blurb: > “The Web Innovato...
Read more →I am a fairly avid fan of Mint.com. So it’s with mixed emotions that I read that Mint is being acquired by Intuit. Intuit is a bigger, better known, and so i...
Read more →I’ve been in the process of setting up a new computer and in the process, as is expected, discovering long lost files and stuff that is easier or harder to move over. I thought I would capture some of the tidbits because there might be something useful here for you - To set the scene, this is a ne...
Read more →This is actually a pretty cool idea! Here’s a quote from Scott’s post: > “I’d like to see a Wheaties box featuring Sally Ride, the first American woman in space (who also happened to be an astrophysicist and Stanford PhD); Internet pioneers Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf; the great primatologist Jane Goodall…” (from: Dear General Mills) 
Sunlight Foundation is a very cool organization that I’ve been close to. They are involved with many efforts to further government transparency and accountability, often using technology, but not only. Recently they ran their second competition looking for interesting and useful applications and too...
Read more →I agree with this point from the post My Take On The Healthcare Debate from Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan): > "If you have to strip out of a bill a mere conversation with seniors about powers-of-attorney for end-of-life decisions, you are not interested in a serious conversation about curtailing healthcare costs."
I was looking at the Apple LED Cinema Display 24” which, of course, looks gorgeous in the store. But it’s a little expensive ($899, which I was willing to eat.) Looking at the customer [comments](http://store.apple.co...
Read more →More stuff that I learned at Transparency camp. Every city has their own way of talking. In New York, I guess you talk about wall street and finance and so on. In L.A. you talk about movies and moviestars. In D.C. you talk about all things politics. (In Boston you...
Read more →Peggy Noonan is always a favorite of mine. Here’s another good op-ed piece, and this time, showing that I am fair and balanced, it’s not positive about Barack Obama and contains some useful insights 🙂 **“They are all n...
Read more →I’ve seen a couple of “RSS is dead” headlines in the last few days, and even though I am on vacation I couldn’t resist a quick post. [Googling](http://www.google.com/search?q=rss+is+dead&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:offici...
Read more →Sure, one isolated story doesn’t prove anything, but then our health care debate often seems to be carried on the basis of isolated stories, so here’s an article about the British Health Care system tha...
Read more →Gavin Murphy (of Annkissam) and I have been talking about the implementation of an idea that has been floating around the philanthropic community for a while, which is leveraging...
Read more →Did you think you pay a lot for cellphone coverage? An article in the Globe and Mail about cellphone rates states that while Canada’s cellphone rates are really high compared to other countries, t...
Read more →Check out this insightful editorial in Sunday’s New York by Frank Rich. I thought it was really good. Here’s an excerpt: **““It’s the economy, the facts that millions of people have lost their jobs and millions of others are ...
Read more →It strikes me that the way speakers are being shouted down at these (now) famous town hall meetings on health care reform is a form on human ‘denial of service’ attack. They are taking advantage of a permitted communication (asking a question) to totally shut down a service (the speaker) by overwhelming the service with communications, thereby denying service to others in the audience. By doing it ‘loudly’ they end up denying service further by drowning out legitimate requests, by noise and intimidation. Just a random geek thought…
A while ago I wrote about weapons of civic mass destruction. I think it is very disturbing to see and hear the way [Town Hall meetings being disrupted by enraged people aggressively questioning speakers in public forums](http://news.google.ca/ne...
Read more →Pretty cool report via Boston Globe, but see my minor complaint about it at the end: “Hold all that gloom and doom about Massachusetts as a state with little to offer young folks. According to Forbes.com, the second-best place in the country for young college grads is none othe...
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