Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Kenan Sahin (Tech Review, via WSJ) writes about the “innovation backlog” in the US and makes suggestions which we in India could do well to learn and adopt: —-cut—- Loosen university intellectual-property rules: University-based research thrived in the 1980s and '90s because of extensive company sponsorships that spawned new innovations, as well […]

Captured And Probably Not Invited For Christmas Dinner At The Ranch In Crawford Texas. Captured And Probably Not Invited For Christmas Dinner At The Ranch In Crawford Texas Seems they've captured Saddam Hussein. [Halley's Comment]

Happy little pop songs about going to hell. My assistant, The Fabulous Lorraine told me that her band were being interviewed by Euan Kerr for Minneapolis Radio. Here's an article you can read on it, with links. You can also listen to the radio piece on them at the MPR site. (The article doesn't mention […]

3.ÊDean, Gov. Howard, VT – Democrat ÊÊ(79%) 4.ÊClark, Retired General Wesley K., AR – Democrat ÊÊ(76%) 5.ÊKucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH – Democrat ÊÊ(73%)Ê 6.ÊEdwards, Senator John, NC – Democrat ÊÊ(71%)Ê 7.ÊGreen Party Candidate ÊÊ(68%)Ê 8.ÊGephardt, Rep. Dick, MO – Democrat ÊÊ(64%)Ê 9.ÊSharpton, Reverend Al – Democrat ÊÊ(57%)ÊÊ 10.ÊKerry, Senator John, MA – Democrat ÊÊ(56%)ÊÊ 11.ÊLieberman, […]

From La Cucaracha [Politics in the Zeros]

Big River. Via Kos: The 10 Regions of US Politics Our regions are based on voting returns from both national and state elections, demographic data from the US Census, and certain geographic features such as mountain ranges and coastlines.Each region represents about… [Eat Your Vegetables] ——- and really my whole life according to this map, […]

Women Internet Researchers. This is something I have been meaning to do – compile a list of women researching the internet – and here it is via misbehaving. Cyber Studies Resources – women internet researchers by Nicola Doering, here “you (will) find a list of women who think and write about the Internet, mostly from […]

News.Com: Google delivers parcel search. The new “Search by Number” feature, announced Friday, also brings up information linked to other kinds of numbers, such as patent numbers, equipment identification numbers issued by the Federal Communications Commission, and airplane registration numbers from the Federal Aviation Administration. [Tomalak's Realm] ——- this could be handy….

US on WSIS. David Gross, head of the U.S. delegation to WSIS, talks about the week in Geneva. A must read. [Lextext]

I hate the letter. Microsoft Typeface Recall and an apology offered: a Swastika happened to slip by the censors. But is it really all that offensive? (more inside) [MetaFilter]