All these states are now dominated, politically, by their exurbs -- far-off suburbs where rich whites can move into exclusive, often gated communities, and control most of the state's capital from afar. It's a hopelessly corrupt, almost plantation-like situation, in which corporate lobbyists are shaken-down for money and white liberals (as well as blacks) are kept to their own ghettos.

Someone must be held accountable. Someone will be.

The biggest threats going forward for eBay remain the banks and the Bells. A Google tie-up helps on both fronts.

This is the most remarkable story of our time, the one you're reading right now, the one you're a part of. It makes journalism cheap and easy to do. It makes politics cheap and easy to do.

The bloggers are winning. Life is becoming more transparent. No one can hide anymore. You can't intimidate a few corporations anymore and make it all go away.

If you're not killing plants you're not a gardener -- you're a conservationist. And conservation isn't a business model.

While the excess of 40 years ago was relatively peaceful (until the very end of the movement), mainly involving self-destruction, the excess of today is rhetorical, and could become far more dangerous very quickly.

Amoeba have the ability not only to recognize their own family members but also to selectively discriminate in favor of them.

YouTube's innovation was really quite simple. They traded screen size for resolution. A YouTube window covers a full quarter of your screen, while a standard MPEG window goes just a few inches on a side. They also standardized the use of codes to enable people to either embed or link to videos in a straightforward manner.

Competition is coming, in other words. It can't be stopped. Moore's Law guarantees it. And with it, so will die the current bottlenecks on change. Without politics.