In today’s Business > Your Money > The Tech Lobby, Calling Again” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/business/yourmoney/25lob.html?pagewanted=print&position=”>New York Times, Gary Rivlin writes a piece on “The Tech Lobby, Calling Again”

interesting article about the evolving clout of Silicon Valley. Worth reading. Good article. Quotes me in the very last paragraph.

This is a great form of advertising: Subservient Chicken

Erik Peterson from The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has put together a web presentation on the Seven Revolutions affecting our future over the next 20 years.

worth checking out…

Sonia Arrison writes another terrific piece on Tech Central Station – Tech’s Immediate Future — worth reading.

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported on a phone Love-Detector by the Israeli company Nemesysco.

You purchase software for $50 that analyzes a conversation between you and your significant other. This software will apparently chart any random conversation and let you know how much the person is in love with you.

If you live in California and you drive … SIGALERT is the ultimate site:

Sigalert.com – Personalized Traffic Reports

this site uses data from the RFID chips in all the FASTRAK passes (for California tolls) and monitors the average speeds of passing cars. Based on this, you can see speed reports from every section of every major highway in California. It is awesome.

Young Success Means Early Death

This study does not bode well for early over-achievers:

McCann’s research, published in the February issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, concerns what he calls the ”precocity-longevity hypothesis.” McCann analyzed the lives of 1,672 U.S. governors who served between 1789 and 1978 and found that those who were elected at relatively tender ages generally died earlier than their less precocious counterparts. Even when he controlled for the year that the governors were born, how long they served and what state they governed, the pattern held. No matter how he sliced the data, ran the regressions or accounted for various statistical biases, the story remained the same: governors elected to office at younger ages tended to have shorter lives.

Always On publishes what it thinks are the Ten most overpaid jobs in the U.S.
— very good piece.

One finds odd things when searching for one’s name on Google…

For those people headed to Sundance this year, the film guide is now available at: Sundance Film Festival 2004

Another good identity theft provention link:

Identity Theft Resource Center | A Nonprofit Organization

Good link for people worried about ID theft:

Federal Trade Commission – Your National Resource for ID Theft