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Finally, A Real Bailout Package


Posted by Contrarian on November 12th, 2008

Good old American ingenuity comes to the rescue:
Ever had to go while playing golf? Can’t hold it for all 18 holes?
A New York-born urologist came up with a solution to golfers’ bothered bladders - a faux club that fits in a golf bag, but is really a mobile urinal.
“I wanted people to feel a level [...]

There Are Many Ways To Skin A Cat . . .


Posted by Contrarian on August 11th, 2008

Old way to ressurect your career — demean yourself on a scripted reality show. New way to ressurect your career — cubism:
Can Martha Stewart take a pie in the face — even one she baked herself? Fine Living Network is about to find out.
On Sept. 16, Fine Living will unveil a new original comedy series [...]

Tax Breaks


Posted by Bruno on February 12th, 2008

Brier Dudley’s right: tax incentives for Yahoo! and Microsoft to build data centers in WA are triply absurd. (1) there’s no other place they can go for cheap hydro power, (2) Microsoft’s going to shut down the Yahoo! data center as soon as they buy the compay, and (3) data centers don’t create jobs. [...]

Products or People?


Posted by Bruno on February 11th, 2008

This is a little off-topic for this blog, but since we’ve been covering the Microsoft-Yahoo! deal in the podcast, I thought it might be relevant to note that Microsoft is buying Danger, Inc., the company that makes mobile phones including the popular “Sidekick.”
What I find interesting is that Google had already hired away [...]

Facebook


Posted by Bruno on January 21st, 2008

Having used the iPhone interface for Facebook for a few months now, I’m convinced that smart phones are the natural environment for FB and its applications. So it makes perfect sense to me that Nokia is making a deal to put Facebook prominently on all of its phones.
In fact, I’d go even farther. [...]

Lying Cop Bit Rate In The Ass By An MP3


Posted by Contrarian on December 6th, 2007

The future busts bad cops:
An NYPD detective will be charged today with lying on the witness stand about how he interrogated a teenage shooting suspect after the savvy 17-year-old captured the whole thing on his MP3 player, sources told The Post yesterday.
When Detective Christopher Perino of the 44the Precinct took the stand last year [...]

Tetris


Posted by Bruno on December 5th, 2007

When it’s winter in Finland, what are you going to do to pass the long, cold nights? How about rigging up your dormitory into a 15-story, cell-phone controlled Tetris game?
This makes me weep, it’s so beautiful and pointless:

Amazon Kindle


Posted by Bruno on November 19th, 2007

In case you haven’t heard, Amazon released an e-book reader called Kindle this week. On the surface, it’s a compelling package: it can deliver books, newspapers, and a few blogs over the cell network, with no monthly charges. You buy the books, you buy the content as you want it. Battery life seems [...]

The Medium is the Message


Posted by Bruno on October 10th, 2007

This is awesome.

A Series of Tubes


Posted by Bruno on September 20th, 2007

The first mention of the “World Wide Web,” from a 1993 article in the newly-liberated New York Times archives:
Making all this information relatively easy to retrieve is a system known as Wide Area Information Server, or WAIS. More than 300 WAIS data bases are now accessible without charge, and a standards committee is finishing work [...]


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