Sun’s erstwhile CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced his retirement Wednesday night in a uniquely geeky way: With a haiku posted to Twitter.
Financial crisis
Stalled too many customers
CEO no more
Schwartz’s decision to announce his departure in the form of a short, Japanese lyric was, perhaps, a veiled jab at Sun’s new boss, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, a noted [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from October 2nd through October 3rd:

Stanford School of Engineering – more free learnin’
webcast.berkeley | UC Berkeley Video and Podcasts for Courses & Events – free learnin’
Layoffs: Valleywag cuts 60 percent of staff – Bad news for online media: Gawker owner Nick Denton is so pessimistic about [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from July 20th through July 23rd:

NASA’s Best Photos: You Make the Call | Wired Science from Wired.com – Vote on NASA’s most iconic images, from 5 decades of space exploration
Our Electric Future ? The American, A Magazine of Ideas – Intel’s Andy Grove argues that we [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from July 8th through July 10th:

There Must Be 50 Ways to Leave Your Twitter | Evil Genius Chronicles – Notes on how to move yourself off Twitter and onto FriendFeed
Media Standards Trust | Transparency Initiative – Tim Berners Lee and others, backed by Knight News Challenge [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from July 2nd through July 3rd:

How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt) –
Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past | GreenTech Pastures | ZDNet.com – Gloomy headline, but interesting graf: [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from June 26th through June 27th:

The Many (Geeky) Faces of Bill Gates, a Capsule Biography – In reality, Gates is a smooth operator who, despite his uncombed hair, baby face and disheveled appearance, knew exactly what he was doing every step of the way, making it [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from June 18th through June 20th:

A List Apart: Articles: Put Your Content in My Pocket – Tips for formatting web pages for iPhone display
Gallery: Mechanical Marvels Hide in Plain Sight – Preview of the Mechanicrawl happening in SF July 12
*relativity by Drzach & Suchy – Artist’s [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from June 13th through June 17th:

The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web – NYTimes.com – “this will be the radiated library and the televised book” – a quote from Otlet about his system. BTW, “Mundaneum” is a great alternate name for [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from June 10th through June 12th:

Cover Story – When Mom and Dad Share It All – Adventures in Equal Parenting – Lisa Belkin – NYTimes.com – “Adventures” is putting it optimistically. This stuff is hard to pull off
Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did [...]