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Sorry for the late notice, but if you don't have lunch plans today and are in or around Washington, try to swing over to DuPont Circle for what promises to be a fascinating talk. Jeffery Galinovsky (of Intel's Emerging Markets Platform Group) will present World Ahead, an Intel program that will invest more than $1 billion over the next five years to speed access to uncompromised technology and education for people in developing communities.

I know Jeff, and I have seen the Classmate PC in action (there will be a demo today as well). If you're at all interested in the One Laptop Per Child idea, stop by today to see how others are approaching this issue. The presentation will span a variety of interests, from education policy to technical design. Jeff is not only a successful platform manager at Intel, but he's an electrical engineer by training, so he promises to make a great presentation.

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Sunday's New York Times featured an extra-large insert on design.  Most of the articles therein dealt with uber-modern furniture, clothes I would never dream of wearing, chic buildings on the Upper West Side, etc.  Not my speed.

As I leafed through it anyway (it was a lazy, rainy Monday in Boston where I was staying), I came across a short article on an upcoming exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.  Design for the Other 90% will open on May 4 and run through the summer.  If you're in New York this summer (and I mean the city, not the Hamptons), be sure to check it out.  From the web site:

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