So, as part of one of my goals for 2009, we’re start­ing to shoot more video (most­ly of Ains­ley, natch). We’ve done so in the past, but with not with any reg­u­lar­i­ty. Though one can­not ignore the fact of lazy par­ent­ing, I do think there are oth­er more sig­nif­i­cant issues con­tribut­ing to our lack of… Con­tin­ue read­ing Kodak Zi6 First Impressions

For the past few years, I’ve jot­ted down some post-game thoughts on Apple’s announce­ments dur­ing their keynote at Mac­World1. I sup­pose — like the major­i­ty of folks, no doubt — I was a bit under­whelmed by this year’s address. Not that Schiller him­self did a bad job, mind you. It’s just become clear that Apple… Con­tin­ue read­ing Mac­World SF — 2009 Edition

Over the years, I’ve decid­ed that set­ting for goals is a bet­ter notion that res­o­lu­tions. A res­o­lu­tion is some­thing that, once you’ve broke it there seems lit­tle point in keep­ing it from then on. They are so all-or-noth­ing. A goal is some­thing to keep striv­ing for. Even if you don’t reach it, at least you’ve… Con­tin­ue read­ing Goals, Not Resolutions

This is one of the best ideas I’ve heard in a while with regards to help­ing the Amer­i­can econ­o­my. I have to resist just copy­ing the entire post here, but here’s the main point: If peo­ple don’t buy cars, there is no amount of bailout that will save the mil­lions of US jobs in and relat­ed… Con­tin­ue read­ing Save Them From Them­selves For Our Sake

Sci­ence is a way of gov­ern­ing, not just some­thing to be gov­erned. Sci­ence offers a method­ol­o­gy and phi­los­o­phy root­ed in evi­dence, kept in check by per­sis­tent inquiry, and bound­ed by the con­straints of a self-crit­i­­cal and rig­or­ous method. Sci­ence is a lens through which we can and should visu­al­ize and solve com­plex prob­lems, orga­nize gov­ern­ment… Con­tin­ue read­ing Seed Mag­a­zine Endors­es Sen. Oba­ma for President

From the NY Times (empha­sis added by me): The Nobel Prize in Med­i­cine was award­ed Mon­day to three Euro­pean sci­en­tists who had dis­cov­ered virus­es behind two dev­as­tat­ing ill­ness­es, AIDS and cer­vi­cal can­cer.  The oth­er half of the $1.4 mil­lion award will go to a Ger­man physi­­cian-sci­en­tist, Dr. Har­ald zur Hausen, 72, for his dis­cov­ery of H.P.V.,… Con­tin­ue read­ing 2008 Nobel for Medicine