Amazon, the hidden empire
I saw this on TechCrunch and thought it was worth remembering. As evidenced a couple weeks ago with the AWS outage, a LOT of new web companies rely on Amazon’s servers. They’re way more than an online...
View ArticleRapture rescheduled to October
Harold Camping, the man who grained lots of publicity for predicting the Rapture would be this past weekend, put out a press release today admitting he didn’t work it out “as accurately as I could have...
View ArticleScanning the Zombie Brain
Nerd Nite SF: “Scanning the Zombie Brain” by Dr. Bradley Voytek, 1/19/11 from nerdniteSF on Vimeo.
View ArticleHow Balfour makes their rings
I found this video of Oklahoma State’s info video on how Balfour makes rings. It’s interesting to see the manual process that is the fulfillment of the site I write code for.
View ArticleMary Roach: 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm
TED Talks released their list of the 20 most-watched videos so far. Most of them, I’d seen but of the handful I hadn’t this caught my eye. The presenter does a decent job being funny while dropping...
View ArticleGame of Thrones Cover
A nice cover to the Game of Thrones theme song by violinist Jason Yang. If you’ve not watched Game of Thrones yet, add it to you list. You’ll thank me later.
View ArticleYoung boy meets first gay couple
Like racism, homophobia is partially a learned reaction. It is not necessarily that someone this is good or this is bad, but studies have shown that kids identify ‘other’ pretty early. Even if not told...
View ArticleResolution for 2014 – Daily Progress
A new calendar year, and it’s time for new resolutions. I’ve been chatting with friends about changing my normal modus operandi and instead of listing major projects, I’m going to try relatively small...
View ArticleHome Depot’s new bucket shows it’s change in target demographics
I read another interesting article on Wired about Home Depot’s exclusive new bucket, made by Leaktite. Aside from the price being about 1/3 too high, they might have a winner on their hands. But, the...
View ArticleA handful of suggestions for GiveIt100
As I mentioned earlier, I’m a fan of the GiveIt100 web site. They got a lot of nice press at the start of the new year and I’m sure they’re working hard to keep things under control from the inevitable...
View ArticleAmazon Prime is the company’s greatest achievement
Love or hate them, Amazon is one of the biggest and most important retail companies of our time. The technical requirements to maintain the sales volume on its websites also makes it one of the largest...
View ArticleNelson Mandela did not narrate Apartheid
Some actors reconstructing Youtube comments to a video talking about the death of Nelson Mandela. The exchange is sad, but the acting is brilliant.
View ArticleStandford students apply design thinking to help clubfoot
I read about a pretty cool project yesterday on Wired. A couple Stanford students made a new type of brace for the treatment of clubfoot that looks good, works, is easy to use and only costs $20. The...
View ArticleMusic Drop lets you create your own custom music box
I read about Music Drop on Gizmodo. They’ve created a simple way for people to make their own custom music boxes. Some of the parts are made with a 3D printer and they allow you to create your tune...
View ArticleA better way of looking at our solar system
When most people think of the solar system the image they come up with is something simialr to this: We get into graduate high school (and maybe even college) with that general idea in mind. The first...
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