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30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions

Check this post 30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions from Mashable!: > We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason.  Lots of good stuff there if you are a FireFox 3 user. Check ’em out! Originally posted on Jun 27, 2008. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.

Update on Jobs’ health

In case you didn’t see this, it’s kind of interesting if you follow Apple and our pal Steve Jobs: > ““I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors,” Jobs, who turns 54 in F...

Michael Lewis and Harry Markopolos

In an excellent article on The End of The Financial World as We Know It, an even more fascinating story about Harry Markopolos: > In his devastatingly persuasive 17-page letter to the S.E.C., Mr. Markopolos saw two possible scenario...

Using Google to make community standards transparent and objective

This New York Times article, “What’s Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer” is pretty interesting, and makes sense at some level: **“Judges and jurors who must decide whether sexually explicit material is o...

Remember to change your clocks tonight

“Revelers will have an extra second to enjoy the New Year celebrations. Drunken party goers may not notice but, thanks to the Earth’s erratic rotation, the countdown to 2009 will last a moment longer. British physicists and official timekeepers around the world will insert a “leap second” to bring the most accurate atomic clocks in line with the astronomical day[…]” from Big Ben Adjusted for Leap Second Happy New Year. Bon Anja, Tur Kos Bon!

Kevin Kelly writes about pervasive (or is it ubiquitous) screens

I always love Kevin Kelly’s writing and thinking and this article in a recent New York Times Magazine doesn’t disappoint. I ha...

Dumb as we want to be?

Thomas Friedman with another thought provoking column. I know not everyone likes his perspective but I find myself in violent agreement more often than not: > “All I could think to myself was: If we’re so smart, why are other people living so much better than us? What has become of our infrastructur...

The most beautiful book?

Now here‘s a recommendation: > “I recently got a hold of what I consider to be the nicest mathematical book in my collection. As a matter of fact, it’s the nicest book I own, period – even though I posses bookshelves teaming with terrific titles on mathematics, science, programming, computer science, photography and so on.” (from Math-Blog) That goes right onto my wish list!

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Is twitter for people or for marketing?

As you may have noticed, I am using Twitter a little more often now. As much as anything it is to learn more about what it’s like, because we are working on full Twitter support in BlogBridge, which should be cool. The question is, what should i...

MINT and security

I have a new favorite web service: Mint. It’s a really nice implementation of kind of a “Quicken” online, but with a few unique wrinkles. Here’s what it does: - Automatically and periodically downloads all the transactions from all your various accounts, banks, credit cards...

Support Club Passim in Harvard Square!!!

Hey! If you live in Boston or Cambridge, and you like music, especially Folk music, then you’ve probably been to Club Passim in Cambridge – Harvard Square actually. It’s a lot more than a ‘Coffee House’ – it’s an institution where many of your favorite 70s acts got ...

More on truly weird medical condition

Suddenly when you learn about something once, you start seeing it everywhere… > “Dr. Paul Grabb, a pediatric brain surgeon, said he was surprised when he discovered a small foot growing inside the brain of 3-day-old Sam Esquibel. “The foot literally popped out ...

A Craigslist for Service?

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is the need for some kind of platform to match local community projects with resources to do them. For example the project might be to build a playground, clear a lot, raise money for the school. And resources might be sources of money, people and thin...

A little more about “Outliers”

Since I wrote a somewhat negative post mentioning Outliers and Malcolm Gladwell the other day, I thought this was a worthwhile follow-up,[“Lost in the Crowd” from the New York Times,](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/op...

Back Channels May Add, But They Also Subtract

I totally agree. Is it just part of the tendency of those people to always want to be the center of attention? Check this post Back Channels May Add, But They Also Subtract from McToonish: > [“...

How come are these two swindlers also huge philanthropists?

The irony and paradox confounds: > “[…] Mr. Dreier, who grew up on Long Island, the son of a refugee from Poland who owned movie theaters, evolved into a bon vivant who belonged to the Harmonie Club and was a staple of high-wattage charity events[…].” (from NYT, “[Lawyer Seen as Bold Enough to Cheat...

How are the New England Patriots like the United States Post Office?

I’ve gotten more interested in logos and graphic design lately so I guess I am noticing stuff like this more than before…

VRM and Iammoving.com

VRM is a concept that’s been floating around for a while. Evangelized (and perhaps coined) by Doc Searls, it has developed a strong following. In their words: > “VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management, is the reciprocal of CRM or [Customer Relationship Management...