Banjo convergence.
Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, and Bela Fleck together on NPR. For banjo fans, this is like the harmonic convergence: NPR : Tony Trischka Has More Than One Banjo on His Knee
Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing
Thank god for telecom deregulation, eh? YouTube – Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!
Boxxet: Channel your enthusiasm.
My friend You Mon Tsang is finally taking the covers off of Boxxet, his third startup since I first met him a decade ago. It looks very promising. Boxxet takes aim at one of the problems I targeted in the livable web manifesto: that the World Wide Web as viewed through Google is just too […]
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The livable web manifesto.
The Web has outgrown the ability of most people to use it effectively. Trying to find useful information via Google requires search savvy that most people don’t have. Even if you know what you’re looking for, there are problems with spam, advertising, and context (for example, “haiku” gives you resu
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How to Seduce a Mac Geek.
Violet Blue: “the city is filthy with user-friendly Mac ass” – hilarious: How to Seduce a Mac Geek / A Macworld Sex Guide
Half-life of the autonomic nervous system.
If you ever have arguments with people of the opposite sex, the following may be the most valuable advice you will receive all year. In humans, strong emotion starts with physiological changes in your body, not with an awareness of the emotion in your brain. So when somebody pisses you off, your hea
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The secret language of babies.
Apparently babies have five distinguishable cries, each with a different meaning. Here’s the decoder: Why is my newborn baby crying?
Linux for the People
After telling George Bush to go to hell, Hugo Chavez is doing the same thing to Bill Gates: Technology Review: Linux for the People
CES 2007 highlights.
My very idiosyncratic list: Scariest product: Security Spy Direct was demonstrating a combination flashlight/taser. As the brochure says: “Your opponent’s eyes will literally POP OUT OF HIS HEAD when you send 500,000 volts of stunning electrical power into his body with our stun guns.” Then you can
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Ultra Wideband Will Cut the Cable Clutter
LAS VEGAS–New wireless networking technologies are poised to cut the cable clutter on your desktop–starting with USB cables. At CES 2007, vendors including Tzero, Alareon, Staccato, and even DaimlerChrysler are demonstrating wireless networking technologies based on ultrawideband (UWB). And in the c
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