Go read Doc Searl’s essay in the Linux journal, called “Getting Flat, Part 2”. Seriously, go read it.

Commenting on Microsoft’s (and others’) practice of screening job applicants by IQ scores:

I can save Microsoft a pile of time and money by reporting a fact no school wants to admit, one that will flatten the world far [...]

That’s right, even with their weird bloated-shut eyes and fuzzy lint-ball bodies, baby cardinals are still cute. We noticed the nest last Friday during a particularly ribald round of Yahtzee! on the porch (sorry, no details). It’s tucked behind a grape-vine trellis just outside one of the screened windows.

The mama came out and squeaked for [...]