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Other items:* blog reports that the is investigating potential Hatch Act violations by GSA Administrator Lurita Doan. Is that really new? I have trouble keeping track of all the investigations these days.* Time Magazine's cover story this week is about the Army, which Time says, is "broken down." * The column has this:If you have problems with the link, try ... at least temporarily.* that New Orleans and Louisiana, swamped when the city's storm protections failed during Hurricane Katrina, demand the federal government pay a damage bill that is more than double the entire cost of the massive Gulf Coast rebuilding effort, and so many claims have been filed against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the agency needs at least another month even to tally the floor-to-ceiling stacks.* A Google brain drain? The reports that less than three years after going public, Google is confronting one of the more confounding consequences of its phenomenal success: a potential brain drain if its earliest -- and richest -- employees quit after earning the right to cash in the last of the stock options that made them millionaires.* Also from the SJMN:Outsourcing: Where's Uncle Sam?The U.S. government should safeguard the interests of its citizens and do more to stop companies from sending jobs abroad. Corporations have framed the debate for too longhttp://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2007/02/outsourcing_whe.htmlLook What's Cooking in Mozilla's LabIt's experimenting with ways to incorporate popular features, like social networking applications, into the Firefox browserhttp://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070405_395663.htm?link_position=link1Young Scientists Design Open-Source Program at NASAAaron RoweJessy Cowan-Sharp and Robert Schingler set up CosmosCode to help NASA develop open-source software for space exploration.NASA scientists plan to announce a new open-source project this month called CosmosCode -- it's aimed at recruiting volunteers to write code for live space missions, Wired News has learned.The program was launched quietly last year under NASA's CoLab entrepreneur outreach program, created by Robert Schingler, 28, and Jessy Cowan-Sharp, 25, of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Members of the CosmosCode group have been meeting in Second Life and will open the program to the public in the coming weeks, organizers said.http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2007/04/cosmoscode_0409Pearls Before BreakfastJoshua Bell is one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played for spare change, incognito, outside a D.C. Metro station, would anyone notice?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html