Cloudy Thinking

Sarah Allen of Laszlo Mail fame writes about the incredibly cool MindCanvas survey application (web ser vice) from Uzanto. Go read Sarah’s excellent description (with pictures). NOW!

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Om Malik provides DSL adoption stats for several medium-size US telephone companies. The rural and rural-suburban market segment shows strong demand.

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Microsoft, with a deft assist from Microsoft’s Scoble-PR-izer, artfully orchestrated this week’s Origami madness.

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Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink and many New Yorker articles is one of my favorite writers. Today’s news: Gladwell now has a blog. Enjoy.

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Peggy Noonan has written a brilliant OpinionJournal piece “If Cattle Flew.” Her subtitle sums it up: “Look at the airports. Why would terrorists bother with seaports? “

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Maggie McKee’s article “Is our universe about to be mangled?” in NewScientist.com is a fascinating read.

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Here’s a not totally whacked out (but close…) conspiracy theory. A ex-military friend writes: (lightly edited):

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You know me, almost always willing to try the latest web service. So today, I built a very simple home page using the beta version of Google Page Creator.

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Iraq appears to be on the verge of civil war between the Shiite and Sunnis. Forbes has a good summary:

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John Markman writes about bird flu from an investor’s perspective on MSN Money.

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Edward B. Driscoll Jr. writes in TCS Daily about the effects of video blogging, place shifting (e.g. SlingBox) and time shifting (TiVo et.al.). It’s good stuff.

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President Bush and his team (especially Mr. Rove) upon occasion show political cunning of the first magnitude. But–and this is a HUGE “but”–the pending approval to allow Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (from the UK) to transfer its operations to Dubai Ports World, a United Arab Emirates business is beyond belief.

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