No contest

May 13th, 2008

Peter Leyden, who runs the interesting New Politics Institute, had an excellent response to my post on Obama’s coming landslide victory in November:

He is a master of the new tools of the new paradigm of politics. It will be like a fight between conventional weapons and nuclear bombs.

A reason to run Windows

May 13th, 2008

Microsoft’s launch of the WorldWide Telescope. I was a childhood astronomy geek, so this has something of Proust’s madeleine for me.