A few good finds from the past few days that turned out to be worth spending extra time with: Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope. Leave it to Microsoft to create something amazingly beautiful and full of potential, but screw it up with a clunky, hard-to-understand, and resource-hogging interface. But Worldwide Telescope gives you some idea of how…

I was in my first real job, 20 stories up in a brown-paneled midtown office building. After two years of recession-forced freelancing, at last I was  employed. But, there was something else I needed. First day, there had been a few hours of HR paperwork.The I-9 form. W-4. Medical/Dental plan. Retirement savings. Life Insurance: 20…

At the 1980 Democratic convention, during what was probably the first election I was maturely aware of*, Ted Kennedy conceded to Jimmy Carter in what has become known as “The Dream Shall Never Die” speech. Its closing words were a reminder to all who care about economic justice, the centerpiece of that campaign: “For all…