Bloggers who love Ray Hudson move the media world closer to perfection

I’ve blogged before about the loopy brilliance of Ray Hudson’s soccer commentaries on GolTV, and linked to the Hudson Wikipedia entry in which some of his gems are collected. But now I’ve learned (via DuNord, who says Grant Wahl told him about) that there’s now a whole friggin’ blog dedicated to “Hudsonia–the Wisdom of Ray [...]

Larry Lessig says corporations are like pet tigers (personally, I prefer guinea pigs)

From a Larry Lessig review of Robert Reich’s new book, Supercapitalism (via Ezra Klein): [W]e need to understand the nature of the corporation — to make money — and come to love it, and yet, to keep it in its proper place, just as you can love a tiger, but know that it’s not the [...]

What stands in the way of a nation of Macs?

The guy sitting at the table next to mine at the Fair Trade Coffee House here in Madison had a Dell laptop. He asked me for help. It was his son’s computer, he said, and he couldn’t figure out how to make the wifi work. I looked at the screen for a minute and finally [...]