"Unless you have a complete meltdown, you're going to get confirmed. And I don't think you will." -- Senator Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina. While there is glowing praise coming out of the first morning of Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing, she has not escaped criticism.

While looking for a creative way to promote my business, I found a company that offers a custom jump drive that can be personalized in a variety of cool designs.

While hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor have just
begun, she is already as well-known as Sandra Day O'Connor, the first
female to serve on the U.S.'s highest court, according to a C-SPAN
poll.

Despite its ostensible focus on stability, the Obama administration's financial reform proposal offers no plan to prevent asset bubbles like the one in subprime loan securities that triggered the current crisis. Although expected, this outcome is disappointing because it appears to be based on an exaggerated fear that a policy against bubbles would fail.

"The Tragedy of the Commons" is an influential article written by Garrett Hardin and first published in the journal Science in 1968. It's one of those pivotal articles at the dawn of the environmental and conservation movements, which describes a dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently in their own self-interest can ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long term interest for this to happen.

The commotion and confusion of Rep. Mark Kirk's entrance/non-entrance into the Senate race in Illinois has once again pitted the party purists against RINOs, or "Republicans in Name Only." Putting aside any ideological arguments or positions on legislation, a party is only relevant when it can a) build a majority and b) get elected in every region of the country.

Ever heard of the Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique? They've got themselves some neato merit badges, for amusement and "By the grace of all that is good about science." For the propagation of an ideal where science communicators can meet firstly, for drinks; secondly, for communicating; and ultimately, for networking.

Now that a few days have passed since the initial cyber-attacks on US and South Korean Web sites, folks in the security community have managed to collect more information about what is going on, and have obtained and analyzed copies of the attack software.

A blogger in a different part of the NYC blogging universe looked at Bloomberg's education campaign literature. It is glossy. It has bulleted points. It has Catholic school kids dressed up to look like public school kids. What? Bloomberg's not comfortable with real public school kids?

Having been trained as a scientist, and having done some teaching and tutoring in the physical sciences, I am not very impressed with the average level of science education that I've encountered, particularly at the secondary-school level. There seems to be a lot of emphasis on learning a collection of facts, but not nearly enough on what science really is.

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