Volker Weber provides a strong counterargument to my posts favoring public investment (very funny, if you are a certain kind of geek): A weekend roundup of Grist stories, handpicked by our editors.

The folks at Intel Corp. aren’t just happy to be geeks. They’re proudly flaunting it in two new ads that will air during this weekend’s Super Bowl. The chip maker is paying inn the range of $5 million ...