Cloudy Thinking

Below is a speech I’ve drafted for President Bush.

My Fellow Americans,

As President Henry Truman said, “The buck stops here.”

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Some government officials claim, post-Katrina, “How could we have known the scope of this disaster?” This Science Magazine article makes the case that experts had studied and simulated a direct hit of New Orleans, and their predictions were directly on the mark.

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John M. Celentano publishes CapEx Report. With his permission here are some SBC factoids:

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The Texas Instruments DaVinci chip is jamming everything a designer might need for a wide range of digital video gizmos into a single chip. This means that cameras and camcorders will get cheaper and smaller. But far more important is that with DaVinci we will see an explosion of new low cost video capture stuff.

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Dr. Hemant Vankawala, a physician from Plano, Texas gives a front line perspective on the battle zone conditions at the NOLA airport. You must read his whole report.

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I’ve written before about Sigurd Rinde who is up to creating something very different. He calls his new run-the-business backbone software system thingamy. I do not understand it, but any idea this radical just might turn out to be a Big Idea.

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The Malcolm Gladwell article in The New Yorker The Moral Hazard is a must read.

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WhatIsMyIP is a cute and useful web service.

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David Cowan of Bessemer writes about the Sales Learning Curve (SLC), invented by Mark Leslie of Stanford, and founder of Veritas.

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A co-worker sent me this article by Robert Tracinski of TIADaily.com and The Intellectual Activist magazine, which promotes the ideas of Ayn Rand.

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The New York Times today has a story about how World of Warcraft (WoW) dominates massive multiplayer online (MMO) games.

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