Month: January 2007

iPhoney?

a really disruptive device would have cost under $200 retail; and done voice, SMS, photos and music. And nothing else.

Google Sheets charts

for my spreadsheet crazy friend

Fate of sojurner

anthropomorphizing robots is increasing all the time. now we try to reconstruct the last hours of an exploratory mars rover.

Candy Helm’s Deep

geek bait

NK Giant rabbits

An east German pensioner who breeds rabbits the size of dogs has been asked by North Korea to help set up a big bunny farm to alleviate food shortages in the communist country. Now journalists and rabbit gourmets from around the world are thumping at his door.

i think this is a hoax.

Steve Jobs makes up BS

jobs is his disingenuous self by claiming that an open phone platform would expose the network to meltdown risk. this is exactly the stuff i hate about apple (even though i recently became a mac user again after a 8 year absence)

Meeting memory aid

draw a map with people’s names to jog your memory

H2O2 Mars Life?

The researchers hypothesize that Mars is home to microbe-like organisms that use a mixture of water and hydrogen peroxide as their internal fluid. There is a possibility that the tests killed the organisms they were looking for.

Google Earth Heatmaps

they would port GeoIQ, their (ironically) very cool heatmap tool for Google Maps, to KML. Here’s a heat map he posted correlating concentrations of single women and highly-rated bars in the Lower East Side (my old stomping ground!).

MA losing labor

not enough jobs for the unskilled outside of the service industry. this is only going to get worse and the remedies suggested in ‘the end of work’ won’t work. maybe a hyper-productive economy with life pensions for the unskilled?