Is there a more universal desire right now than the “upgrade”? Better yet, nearly instant upgrade. It actually gives me an absurd giddy feeling. Example: This weekend, I upgraded to WordPress 3.0. The interface doesn’t look that different, but I watched the video documenting the tweaks and fixes, and felt lighter anyway. It’s a [...]

How about this for an analogy? On reading that the Senate’s health reform bill has swapped the controversial “public option” for a “buy-in” Medicare option + two national private insurance policies (Washington Post), I immediately had a giddy vision of the diagram on the left from Bruce Alberts’ Molecular Biology of the Cell. This diagram [...]