Links for May 1st
May 1st, 2008These are a few things I found interesting on May 1st:
- The Next CNet - Joel Johnson - Interesting idea from Joel for a crowdsourced gadget info database
- Autopia Biofuels - Biodiesel filling station located in San Mateo, CA
- Paul Kedrosky: Age and the Entrepreneur - Average age of U.S. tech entrepreneurs? 39. Yeah, it shocked me too. Turns out I’m not too old to start a company after all!
- Scientists Create First Memristor: Missing Fourth Electronic Circuit Element | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - Spiffy R&D news. In addition to resistors, inductors and capacitors, scientists now have components that change resistance based on how much current has flowed through them.
- Carlyle, “Mechanical Age” - Writing in 1829, around the time Babbage was starting to design his Difference Engines: “It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word”