In what has been called a gift to the banks in the form of “financial reform”, Senators Chris Dodd’s bill would do a lot of different things, one of them a major blow for the start up community.

From a post by Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures, Fred points out.....

Your standing on a train track, shoelaces tied up in the rails. A pair of scissors in your hand and a train barreling down on you….

Do you cut your shoelaces and run or do you stand there an hold your arms up for the train to stop?

I came across the new CSPAN website via a link from a news article and was thoroughly impressed by how well thought out the interface was and how much more easily accessible the sites content was then before. I was not surprised to find out that one of our favorite designers, JESS3 was behind the redesign.