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  • Fred Wilson’s really great idea: “One PE firm should buy Volt. Another should buy Buick. A third should buy Jeep. A fourth should buy Lincoln. And if a brand can’t find a buyer at any price with a boatload of taxpayer money behind it, then it should fail.”
  • CapeCodTimes.com - Kennedy wins voters’ hearts
  • Common plastics chemical linked to human diseases | U.S. | Reuters
  • Hackers aim to make biology household practice - The Boston Globe
  • A Brief History of Avant Garde « Thinking for a Living™

Fred Wilson led off yesterday with a terrific post on how to deal with the American auto industry–break it up into pieces, and see which parts are viable.  Fix Volt, not “the industry.”
Fred’s prescription is exactly what the economics of innovation would tell us:  In a collapsing business ecosystem, the whole is not worth more [...]

CapeCodTimes.com - Kennedy wins voters’ hearts
HYANNIS — A cheerful crowd of voters and poll watchers greeted Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., yesterday as he and his wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, headed toward the voting booths inside Barnstable Town Hall.
Kennedy said he hoped there would be a big turnout for yesterday’s state primary races.
“I get lumped up [...]

Stay away from polycarbonate water bottles, folks.  What some people have long suspected is strongly supported by this study–a chemical that leaches out of polycarbonates is very toxic. Even worse, the diseases that the chemical is linked to are heart disease and diabetes.
Common plastics chemical linked to human diseases | U.S. | Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - [...]

Talk about a development with implications for the role of innovators in the world.  Here is an accessible article on the DIY biology moment, complete with names of the corresponding academic journals.  You can do it.  Happy exploring:
Hackers aim to make biology household practice - The Boston Globe
CAMBRIDGE - In a third-floor loft where programmers [...]

Check this out, by way of Samantha Warren wonderful on design, type.  I can’t figure out how to show the example image–must see.
A Brief History of Avant Garde « Thinking for a Living™
Given the high volume of requests for the font, Lubalin formed Lubalin, Burns & Co. (which later became the International Typeface Corporation) and [...]

A welcome dose of Meg Fowler–here’s a taste but you want to go there…
megfowler.com » About Meg
I might try to: write a novel; go kiteboarding; live in Prague, study for my Masters in Journalism; get hitched to a decent human being; and stop doing that weird thing with my toes. Or not. Anything is possible [...]

I had almost forgotten about Amyloo, but she is still out there with insightful, well, insightful insights!
Amyloo: Tuesday, September 02, 2008
You can almost see the Twitter team sitting there, hugging themselves, clutching at their wonder feature, knowing they’re onto something, but thinking “Oh shit, what do we do with this monster of a success? All [...]

I’ve noted recently that the anti-patent ideologues are now claiming that patents prevent sharing of knowledge and information.   Of course what they are missing is that patents can make it possible to share information and still keep ownership.  Thus a strong, effective patent system encourages disclosure and makes society open to ideas.
AIPPI 41st World Intellectual [...]

Fire Daily Calls
Fire & Rescue Incident Response Report
You really have got to see the above. What a wonderful way to use RSS.  The RSS comes from the fire and rescue log.  The feed is in GeoRSS and also displays on Google Maps.  Very cool, and very useful.  Now it I can just get my small [...]

David Brooks writes in the New York Times about the most important issue facing our nation: education and “human capital.”  Here is a teaser.  Please read the article.
Op-Ed Columnist - The Biggest Issue - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Between 1870 and 1950, the average American’s level of education rose by 0.8 years per decade. In 1890, the [...]

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