Is too much connectivity destroying our lives?
Here I am, taking a break from a crazy morning of launching a newly public product beta community. (By the way, if you want to virtualize your PC or Linux box, try the latest beta release candidate of VMware Workstation 7 and Player: http://bit.ly/14YHHM ; but I digress.) I’ve been glued to my [...]

The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
Love this series. Tonight’s program was about Stephen Mather’s entry into the history books, and his achievements including the formation of NPS. Also learned a tidbit about Charles W. Eliot’s role in forming Acadia National Monument (later National Park) on Mt. Desert. (Eliot happened to be the president of Harvard at the time; [...]

Irving Kristol: Neo-what???
WSJ.com – Opinion: A Life in the Public Interest   [ This article will be available to non-subscribers of the Online Journal for up to seven days after it is e-mailed.] I do not agree with the writer’s definition of the condition ”in time, to be called neoconservatism.”  But I am reading, in the media, two partially conflicting views of who Irving [...]