From Wired, an article on Shai Agassi's audacious plan to put electric cars on the road; and the critics need a reboot: The Internet hasn't led us into a new Dark Age. From Technology Review, "it's not a revolution if nobody loses": A new age of "technological reproducibility" is here — Ugh. Google, 10 years in: Big, friendly giant or a greedy Goliath? A look into the future: The pros and cons of a Google world. Dr. Doom: Two years ago, Nouriel Roubini predicted the current economic crisis; now he sees things becoming far worse. Bush 36,000: The invisible hand slaps conservatives again. From Hipster Book Club, an interview with Michael Ian Black, author of My Custom Van. Some ads generally never have a telephone number; that is usually the case for the ads placed by girls trying to sell their virginity, and there are lots of them. More on John Zogby's The Way We'll Be. From The American Interest, John Lewis Gaddis on Ending Tyranny: The past and future of an idea. From HNN, an interview with Ted Sorensen. From Prospect, politics gets personal: How the Conservatives are responding to the "politicisation" of private behaviour; and against ideology: The Labour party should ignore those calling for a return to ideological roots and instead embrace pragmatism. English spelling: You write potato, I write ghoughpteighbteau. Out of the mist: Is Rollie an exception, or are all gorillas as clever?
