NATE NELSON SAYS Kindergarten-style Payback Isn’t So Bad.

TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT: Skepticism About The EU’s Future. “Every opinion poll shows that while most Britons are against joining the Euro (and a substantial minority now favours complete withdrawal from the EU) they gloomily believe that the government will haul them into it by hook or by crook. This isn’t just fatalism – it is indicative of a wide and growing gap between the rulers and the ruled.”

MITCH BERG: Ten Things You Should Do If You’re An “Anybody But Mitt” Republican.

ERIC S. RAYMOND: Junk-Science Double Fail.

SURE TO GO VIRAL: One Cute Thing A Day.

WELL, MY TEN-YEAR BLOGGIVERSARY went better than this.

ARNOLD KLING on the future of higher education.

ACCORDING TO THE FDA, YOUR STEM CELLS ARE NOW DRUGS. I see this as a bit of a stretch where the Commerce Clause is concerned. Of course, I think that abortion is beyond Commerce Clause regulation.

This may also be a good test case for Eugene Volokh’s doctrine of medical self-defense.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: Heath Shuler To Retire From Congress.

Well, the Asheville Tea Party has been on his case for two years. He’s wise not to face their wrath.

HMM: Scientists to Breach Buried Antarctic Lake, Untouched for Millions of Years. “After two decades of drilling through miles of Antarctic ice, Russian scientists are about to breach an underground lake that has not been exposed to the surface in more than 20 million years. Lake Vostok, as the body of water is called, is part of a chain of more than 200 lakes hidden beneath the ice, some of which were formed when Australia and Antarctica were still connected. Vostok will be the first one of all to be opened when the drill hits water next week.” I hope the BLUE HADES are okay with this. . . .

UPDATE: Uh oh. No word from Russian scientists for 5 days. I guess the BLUE HADES were not amused. Let’s just hope it stops there. . . .

ANOTHER UPDATE: What if it’s DEEP SEVEN? Well, even the BLUE HADES are afraid of them. . . .

BOB OWENS: House Dems Disgraceful at Holder Hearing. “They showed up to protect the president, and showed no interest in justice for the dead.”

UPDATE: Democrats Circle Wagons Around Holder.

THIS WOULD BE COOL: DARPA Invests In Megapixel Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses.

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INSTAVISION: I talk with Charles Sykes, author of A Nation of Moochers: America’s Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing. (Bumped).

READER JON TERRY WRITES:

You had a post recently about entrepreneurship in Chattanooga that encouraged me to write you. I’m with a small start-up company in Nashville (which also has a pretty decent entrepreneurial scene!). Our company sells a product that should be dear to your heart. There’s a huge shift in the IT world away from multi-year, centrally planned projects towards self-organizing teams iteratively developing small incremental deliverables in close collaboration with customers. This movement goes by a number of names: Lean, Agile, Scrum, Lean Startup.

In conjunction with cloud-computing, Lean-Agile is revolutionizing IT, shifting power from larger companies to small and (within large companies) from middle management down to line staff. To my mind, it’s all very much in the spirit of your book “An Army of David’s”. LeanKit is an online tool that allows these Lean-Agile teams to easily collaborate from anywhere in the world by modeling their project workflows as sticky-notes on a virtual whiteboard. In fact, while we built it for IT, LeanKit has also been used by construction companies, law firms, universities, sales people and elementary school teachers. Apparently they were all looking for a simpler, more democratic approach to project management, too. :-)

If people are interested in learning more about Lean-Agile, they can check out these Amazon reading lists. And, of course, we’d be thrilled if they would check us out at www.LeanKit.com!

Very interesting.

VIDEO: SpaceX Tests New “Super” Rocket Engines.

SpaceX fired up the rocket engines it will use to help land the Dragon spacecraft as well serve as the emergency escape engines in case of a launch emergency.

The Southern California space startup successfully tested the SuperDraco engine at its Rocket Development Facility in McGregor, Texas. The tests included subjecting the engine to full duration, full thrust and deep throttling demonstrations, providing the company with another step towards offering commercial manned space flight to low earth orbit.

Cool.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Reader Tanya — writes:

From yesterday: ON AMY ALKON’S ADVICE GODDESS RADIO AT THE TOP OF THE HOUR: Why are women more likely to become compulsive shoppers and men more likely to become addicted to pornography? Plus, “How come you have to buy her an engagement ring and she doesn’t have to buy you an engagement boat?”

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Glenn, I’m recently engaged – and we’re in the early stages of a shift in culture where the lady gets him something high value as well. My main squeeze got a Kindle, a very nice carry piece and accessories for both from me.

Well, good!

PROGRESS: Formation-flying Nanorobots. This isn’t really nanotechnology, though, any more than an iPod Nano is: Theyre roughly the size of these radio-controlled helicopters favored by many InstaPundit readers. Still cool, though, as they’re equipped with much more intelligence.

SHOCKER: “Joyce Foundation anti-gun shills have ties to ATF brass. But remember, kids, if you think that the ATF allowing guns to be smuggled into Mexico was an attempt at ‘under the radar’ gun control, you’re just a lunatic.”

REPORT FROM THE BIG-MEDIA SWEATSHOPS: Former Unpaid Intern Sues Hearst for Labor Law Violations.

ZAP: Earth In For A Bumpy Ride As Solar Storms Hit. “If anything, we’re making things on the grid more vulnerable.”

THE BLAME GAME IN EGYPT.

DONALD TRUMP endorses Romney.

REPULSIVE GRAVITY as an alternative to Dark Energy.

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