Of interest:

The state of Indiana is giving all residents free software and file storage, so they can access and work on files from anywhere. This is very cool. Will every state do this? Why not?

As an example of how Wikis can enhance a topic, here's a Useful profile of John
Negroponte, the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, from Wikipedia. Compiled by a consortium of Web users, the profile includes details that probably don't come up in official biographies...

And in this, The Roe Effect, the Wall St. Journal runs an analysis of how many voters have been lost due to legal abortion. Apparently they would have been liberals, and Al Gore might have won the last election. No word on where all those millions of extra people would have lived. Would urban/surburban/rural sprawl be even worse?