links for 2006-06-07

• Model D – Detroit is Flat
  “(We must) stop living in the past, embrace the future. There is no other option.” Michigan theorist has tough words for the state’s economy. Nothing too new (Richard Florida, anyone?), but well stated.
• ClimateCrisis.net: An Inconvenient Truth
  Everyone should see this movie about global warming.
• A ‘more revolutionary’ Web – Technology – International Herald Tribune
  I liked this quote: “People keep asking what Web 3.0 is,” Berners-Lee said. “I think maybe when you’ve got an overlay of scalable vector graphics – everything rippling and folding and looking misty – on Web 2.0 and access to a semantic Web integrated across a huge space of data, you’ll have access to an unbelievable data resource.”
• The Capitol History Project – C-SPAN
  CSPAN series on the history of the Capitol.