Not long ago I digitized some Super8 footage from the family archives, and found this 1973 bit taken in the Central Park bandshell.

Thanks to Kipp Watson, I'm part of the google Wave beta.

Now to figure out what to do with it...

This Mashable post seems to be a decent place to start.

UPDATE November 24: 

I have some invites if anyone wants them.

Zinger of the week, at the end of this graf from City Journal's excellent comparison of two governmental models: 

With tax revenues scarce and voters strongly opposed to surrendering more of their income, Texas officials devote a large share of their expenditures to basic services that benefit the most people. In California, by contrast, more and more spending consists of either transfer payments to government dependents (as in welfare, health, housing, and community development programs) or generous payments to government employees and contractors (reflected in administrative costs, pensions, and general expenditures). Both kinds of spending weaken California’s appeal to consumer-voters, the first because redistributive transfer payments are the least publicly beneficial type of public good, and the second because the dues paid to Club California purchase benefits that, increasingly, are enjoyed by the staff instead of the members.

For my neighbors interested in the Garden State's finances, go for this look at New Jersey at GMU's Mercatus Center.

Only three more sites to migrate before I am free of MediaTemple's deeply troubled Grid hosting service.

Their customer service is fine, but their phone system fails more often than the Detroit Lions, and the server outages come too frequently and occasionally for days at a time. Here's their status feed.