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This has been picked up all over the place, so you might have already seen it. I thought it was good. There are many sections that are quotable, I pick just one. You should just read the whole thing, as I said, [picked up](http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2008/10/17/hedge-fund-manage...
Read more →Halo, from HP. Really? Unfortunately it is outrageously expensive. Can’t find the number online but I heard 50-100K. > “The Halo studio—designed by DreamWorks Animation in partnership with HP—provides life-size, real-time, eye-to-eye conferencing with outstanding audio and no delay. Halo gives the sense of being in the same room together. And best of all, it’s right down the hall.” (from Introducing Halo)
Check out this post Henry Blodget: Should You Really Panic And Sell Everything Like Cramer Says?: > "On the Today Show Monday morning, Jim Cramer told investors to sell everything and get out of the stock market. A Wall Street friend described this as the market’s "Munchian scream moment."" (from: from Huffington Post: Front Page) …
Esther Dyson wrote this very interesting Wall Street Journal article about how online advertising is changing. This article is very relevant to my new product, SWIFT, which I have hinted about ...
Read more →Like everyone else, I’ve been following the drama on Wall Street, Main Street, Washington DC and so on. Bless their hearts, they have posted a document called“firstdraft.pdf” to allow the masses to examine the bill which will authorize the bailout (a bit of irony?) It’s way over my head, but a quick scan does reveal some rather large numbers being bandied about… 
Wow!!!!
A very interesting article in Edge.org (by the way, an always interesting site.) This one is called Moral Psychology and the misunderstanding of religion: > “I study morality from every angle I can find. Morality is one of those basic asp...
Read more →Interesting article about the sale of DVDs in Silicon Alley Insider: > “Just a reality check on the video download/rental business: There really isn’t one yet. At least not compared to good old-fashioned DVD sales and rentals.” (from “Forget iTunes: Americans still love to buy DVDs“) Interesting article. I wonder, what about music CDs?
I just downloaded the new ITunes 8. It has this new thing called the iTunes Genius which seems like it is going to help me create play lists or something. Maybe it’s gonna out Pandora Pandora or Last.FM. Don’t know exactly what I am getting but I pushed the big red button and got it enabled. I got c...
Read more →Maybe this is one more of the futile petitions that we send around and to each other, but the goal rings true to me: > “It is critical that our policymakers turn their attention to our deteriorating financial health which, if not addressed responsibly and quickly, will cause severe economic hardship for our nation and its citizens, especially the young and future generations.” (from “Letter to Candidates”) Read the whole thing here, and if you like, sign it!
A good article in the New York Times Magazine about the so-called ‘ambient awareness’ phenomenon: > “Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much ...
Read more →Gizmodo shows the first ad, and even though I love Jerry and like Bill, it, indeed, makes no sense. Maybe I am just to literal minded.
The quote below is from this post from ReadWriteWeb > While we are certainly seeing more and more examples of products being given away for free, it is **not necessarily a good thin...
Read more →I read the New York Times, and magazines like The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and web sites like Salon. Each of these, IMO are relatively thoughtful and interesting and a good way to keep...
Read more →An interesting article from Bruce Schneier about why he believes that TSA requirement of photo IDs is a waste of time: > “The problem is that it is unverified passenger names that get checked against the no-fly list. At security checkpoints, the TSA just matches IDs to whatever is printed on the boa...
Read more →(updated at 12:08pm Sept 2) > “In a posting on a company site Monday, Google indicated that a version of the software, called Chrome, would be available for download on Tuesday. It said the software is designed to make it faster to browse the Web and easier to run applications without downloading ...
Read more →I’ve written about some of the considerations that go into the choice between physical infrastructure and new SAAS services such as Amazon’s S3 and EC2. I also covered [why the fact that you are comfortable relying on a hosting provider for rack mounted...
Read more →Who said “your TSA don’t dance and your USPTO don’t rock and roll?” (One free copy of BlogBridge for all of you who get the reference without using Wikipedia) Here are two cool examples. First up, the TSA ([Transportation Security Administration) now has a blog that seems to be much more than a ...
Read more →From TimesOnline, a good reminder to not forget that we do live in a USA bubble sometimes, and don’t pay enough attention to the rest of the world: “A little over two decades later, Arkady Volozh is the chief executive and one of the founders of Yandex, Russia’...
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Take a look at that very weird looking Mac menu. I didn’t (knowingly) do anything to get it and yet every time I launch a new application it’s menus are corrupted that way. All of its menus, and with fancy animated graphics. Anyone know what’s going on? I just told someone today that Mac’s NEVER have viruses!