links for 2008-03-03

• FT.com / Columnists / Christopher Caldwell - What Obama owes to Reagan
  "Mr Obama wants to be president of the US. Mrs Clinton wants to capture the government for her faction"
  (tags: Obama USA politics election Clinton)
• ODI - Independent living - Independent Living Strategy
  New independent living strategy published today. "It takes a life course approach, from young people in transition to adulthood and including older people."
  (tags: government strategy disability ageing UK Policy)
• 'Enjoy life while you can' | Environment | The Guardian
  Lovelock has been dispensing predictions from his one-man laboratory in an old mill in Cornwall since the mid-1960s - feature on James Gaia Lovelock
  (tags: climate ecology environment Gaia life sustainability)
• Greedy City is eating away at Britain's backbone | Business | The Observer
  As someone else said recently, banks are the only companies that privatise profit but can socialise loss
  (tags: greed government london money regulation risk crisis economics)
• Putting innovation in the hands of a crowd
  Probably interesting - but the Kluster site is so innovative it only works in IE6 or Firefox (not Safari) so I couldn't tell you any more...
  (tags: innovation US companies business)