updates
- Trimble acquires Spime. http://t.co/f2sxQ51N Nice scoop by @sarahmitroff. Also, it's fun to say "Trimble and Spime" #vb about 1 hour ago
- And by Zeldman I mean @zeldman of course. about 2 hours ago
interesting links- Trimble acquires Spime to grow its GPS business | VentureBeat
- Design Is Dead. Long Live Design! | Epicenter | Wired.com
- Web Design Manifesto 2012 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
- Pot Prosecution Goes Up in Smoke Due to Warrantless GPS Tracking | Threat Level | Wired.com
- What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed? | VentureBeat
- Tour the updated Google Search iPhone app… with bunnies | VentureBeat
- Google+ wants to be your new Flickr | VentureBeat
- (500) http://www.techmeme.com/120522/p71#a120522p71
- The Facebook Fallacy - Technology Review
- EXCLUSIVE: Here's The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO - Business Insider
- Elon Musk Competing With Zuck For Best Week Ever: Announces Tesla Milestone, Launches Rocket To ISS | TechCrunch
- Twitter / FinancialTimes: View of the City of #Londo
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Laptop batteries on fire.
Here’s a 5-minute video showing what happens when a laptop battery ignites: It sets off a chain reaction, where successive battery cells ignite, each one releasing more heat and increasingly big jets of flame (up to 6 feet high). Amazing … Continue reading
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Instant haiku.
This is kind of cool: TextMarks is a service that lets you create your own custom SMS quick-response codes. People enter the code and send it to the TextMark short code (41411), and then they get the text that you … Continue reading
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Memo to Britney: SMS is no way to break up with the father of your children.
11/10/2006 Comments Off
Going to Nashville.
Not because of my bluegrass banjo-pickin’ talent, but because I’ve just been selected to go take part in The Climate Project’s next training session, Dec. 1-3. Along with about 200 other volunteers, I’m going to get trained by Al Gore, … Continue reading
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Kevan Atteberry says he’s the guy who designed Clippy, the animated paperclip in Office. I wonder who designed Einstein?
11/7/2006 Comments Off
I e-voted.
This morning the poll workers in San Mateo offered me a choice of voting on a traditional paper ballot, or using their one electronic voting machine: an E-Slate system from Hart Intercivic. After looking at the machine and being assured … Continue reading
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U3: software to go.
For the past year I’ve been toting around a USB drive that has a folder full of portable applications, such as Thunderbird and Firefox. That way I can run these applications (with all of my data) on any machine I … Continue reading
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Free speech zone T-shirts.
Ever notice those “Free Speech Zones” that the authorities put up outside political conventions, trade summits, embassies, and basically anywhere else someone might feel like expressing an opinion? What’s up with that? Last I checked, the whole country was supposed … Continue reading
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Blog tracking with Google.
Google’s newish Blog Search is a handy way to keep track of the “buzz” about a particular blog, in addition to posts from that blog itself. Just go to blogsearch.google.com and type the URL of your blog into the box. … Continue reading
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The best part of Halloween.
Clara, last night: “Daddy, do you know what the best part of Halloween is?” “No, Clara, what’s that?” “The part where the candy goes into your bucket.” She confirmed that she likes that part even better than the part where … Continue reading
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