White House Communications Feedback

Mark Leibovich writes in the New York Times Magazine, 'The podium job [of White House Press Secretary] is all-consuming, especially in an age when daily briefings are televised. As Axelrod says, “You can send markets crashing and troops in motion by one slip of the tongue.”'

Isn't this a sign that we have our feedback loop out of whack? If we engineered a car such that operating the turn signal incorrectly caused the freeway to back up wouldn't that be a problem?

focus follows mouse

Steve Yegge gives this a much more thorough treatment on his blog. But if you want to fix Terminal.app so that focus follows the mouse between Terminal windows then this
defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES
does the trick.

link to Put Change.gov under Revision Control

A concrete suggestion from Tim O'Reilly for improving transparency in government.