A few verses worth re-reading given the events of the past few weeks: When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick … [Read more...]
Immigration and the Startup Visa
June 30, 2011 by
A few weeks ago, I was at a Georgia Tech student event, the Convergence Innovation Competition. I was incredibly impressed by the quality of the student entrepreneurs. They were mostly Master's candidates in Computing or Electrical Engineering, While still at the competition, I tweeted: Of the first 28 student entrepreneurs I've met in … [Read more...]
“Everyone wants the next Silicon Valley.”
June 30, 2011 by
Bruce Guile on replicating Silicon Valley: I am certain it would be possible to create a two-hour global video montage composed entirely of short clips of political leaders, government executives, university presidents, real estate developers and even some high-tech executives standing at a podium announcing that their project would create the … [Read more...]
“The global climate movement has become the kind of embarrassment intellectuals like to ignore.”
June 28, 2011 by
Great column by Walter Russell Mead. Read the whole thing, but here's an excerpt: The global green treaty movement to outlaw climate change is the most egregious folly to seize the world’s imagination since the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war in the late 1920s. The idea that the nations of the earth could agree on an enforceable treaty … [Read more...]
Where Do We Put the Sidewalks?
June 27, 2011 by
I'm not a Catholic, nor a right-winger, but I loved this quote: the mandate to care for the poor and the vulnerable need not necessarily translate into state action: We are commanded to feed the hungry, not to vote for the guy who will tax another guy to pay another guy to run an agency to feed the hungry. via Gay Marriage: Where Do We Put … [Read more...]
Why I love my PhotoJojo lens
June 14, 2011 by
iPhone 4 pictures taken from the same position in a hotel ballroom, before and after attaching the lens. Click to embiggen. (This is Gov. Perdue of North Carolina speaking at the Southern Growth Policy Board; confusing, because we had our own Gov. Perdue in Georgia until six months ago!) Standard iPhone 4 photo With PhotoJojo … [Read more...]
Three Governors on Stage
June 13, 2011 by
Gov. Haslam of Tennessee, Gov. McDonnell of Virginia, Jay Timmons (Natl Assoc of Manufacturers), and Gov. Barbour of Mississippi on stage at the Southern Growth Policy Board meeting in Roanoke. Gov. Perdue of North Carolina had to delay her appearance until Tuesday since Obama was visiting her home state. … [Read more...]
Gov. Haslam
May 5, 2011 by
Governor Haslam of Tennessee announcing the Tennessee INCITE investment program at the TN NEXT conference in Nashville. … [Read more...]
A hypothetical conversation in London, 1864
March 29, 2011 by
I have lifted and edited this from "Petronius" on another site: http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/2011/Q1/mail668.html Last night (28 March 2011), the President addressed the nation on the Libyan action. Imagine if this parallel conversation had happened in London in July of 1864... "Gentlemen, it is a Humanitarian Catastrophe that … [Read more...]
GT Legislative Priorities
November 20, 2010 by
Georgia Tech's legislative priorities for 2011. … [Read more...]
