I first came across Kiva in early January 2007. I had read a blog post about a woman in Africa who wanted a mini-mill to help grind millet.¹ I thought, well, that's not hard, and I know, from the day job, what an effective investment it could be. I'll send her the money. And so I looked for onli...

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Over at The Other Place I have ongoing discussions with Luigi (while we wait for the call from G****e) about the differences between momentary measures and long-term trends. He likes the former. I prefer the latter. ¹ But when he IMed me to say we our Google-fu was powerful, I had to go over and...

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I was going to rant. I was going to rave. I was going to find a voodoo doll of my printer -- or maybe of Photoshop -- and stick pins in it. Because after I had spent a decent amount of time cleaning up a scan and getting it just so on the monitor, when I came to commit to print, the blasted imag...

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Spitzer’s shame is no direct concern of mine, although it is staggering that these powerful dudes seriously imagine that they won’t get caught. I mean, what are they, 19-year old drunk drivers who believe themselves immortal? And I won’t myself deign to consider why they can’t just Keep It In Their...

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19 cities in the world with 20 million people in the 21st century is a slide show that sets out a jaw-dropping agenda to study the near future. The slides are wonderful, so is the concept. One can but hope that the results will be too. Just one little niggle: nowhere among the 14 “subjects of expl...

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