…of the President’s exhor­bi­tance of priv­i­lege. Legal Group Says Bush Under­mines Law by Ignor­ing Select Parts of Bills — New York Times.

[via Majik­thise]

The Amaz­ing Screw-​​On Head (Via Quan­tum of Wan­tum.)

At The Daily Tran­script, in “Fam­ily and Acad­e­mia”:

chant: Work hard now and the pay­off is later.

A note on under­dogs at Busi­ness Week, at Gob­lin Mer­can­tile Exchange:

For that mat­ter, it is in the back­ground of con­troller evo­lu­tion that com­fort and pre­ci­sion are gen­er­ally held to the high­est stan­dards. In response to niche demands, through the mid-%u201990s Sega refined its con­trol pads to a level that many enthu­si­asts con­sider the peak of design. The result: of the three major con­soles of the last gen­er­a­tion, the least main­stream is one of the most well-​​designed con­trollers ever; the second-​​least main­stream is one of the most inno­v­a­tive con­trollers ever, and the con­troller that became the default model for the fol­low­ing ten years %u2013 while nei­ther well-​​designed nor in any sense orig­i­nal %u2013 is best adapted to the demands of the major­ity, by bor­row­ing bits of every­thing else.

An incre­men­tal­ist view of trans­for­ma­tion in the Way Sci­ence She Is Done.

At Pub­lic Ram­bling:

One advan­tage of this is that it is not a rev­o­lu­tion of the sci­en­tific process. Peo­ple could still work in their nor­mal research envi­ron­ment closed within their research groups. This is just a model of how we could extend the sys­tem to make it mostly open and pub­lic. The tech­nolo­gies are all here: struc­tured blog­ging for the data streams, wikis for the man­u­scripts and online com­mu­ni­ties to drive the research agendas.

(Via Open Access News.)