from the world of scientific enquiry: NASA Gives OK to Fix Hubble Telescope. I still wonder if it makes creationists uncomfortable, though.

on what a Kerry-era foreign policy might look like following a meeting with Rand Beers, Richard Holbrooke, Gary Hart, and other Democratic Big Wigs in the field. Very interesting both for what is said and what is left unsaid.

has published some short excerpts of John Kerry’s speech last night. It was a hell of a speech.

Danah Boyd seems to have gotten it right in her story yesterday, The new blogocracy. “Bloggers at the Democratic National Convention signify a shift in media, but not a replacement for mainstream coverage. […] What they are doing cannot be compared to journalism; it can only be described as blogging.”

a NYTimes story and made very good comments apropos of the fact that the paper has reported that the electronic records from a 2002 election in Dade County have been lost. The election was a gubernatorial primary, and not two years later there is no record of the results other than the final tallies.