Upset that Netflix is raising its prices? Go buy meth where your local Blockbuster used to be! -robdelaney rob delaney on twitter If your a Netflix subscriber (and I am currently not, but I do join on and off when I get in the mood to watch some movies) you have no doubt heard about [...]
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“The concept of country of origin for manufactured goods has gradually become obsolete.” An interesting article in the WSJ on tech supply chains and the problem with a lot of trade statistics. Remember how much of a trade deficit we have? Well apparently the iPhone’s wholesale cost counts towards China’s exports, not ours. Its interesting [...]
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I have seen a lot of technology for the blind, and I can safely say that the iPhone represents the most revolutionary thing to happen to the blind for at least the last ten years. Fifteen or twenty years brings us back to the Braille ‘n Speak, which I loved in the same way, so [...]
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“We know from lots of other situations that the Scandinavian nations lead the world when it comes to such important things like environmental matters, gender equity, income equality. But amazingly, its not just Finland where they need a lot of coffee amidst all the darkness to make it through the day. But its Norway, Sweden [...]
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Time Warner Cable has never exactly blown me away with their services. They have added more HD over the years now (although Fox Soccer in HD is missing, would trade a few Bravo & A&Es for that) anyway, what definiately doesn’t blow me away is their crappy cable box that crashes and has all kinds [...]
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A funny video from Slate V, the first time I watched it I had thought Jonathan Ives and some of the Apple folks had a sense of humor and were somehow involved but its really just some clever editing repurposing their ‘magical’ commments.
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So you probably know I like the iPhone, I was one of those fools who paid way too much for the first one and have been hooked since. So like a true addict I was counting down the days to iOs 4.0 that added background processes for apps (I know, I could have been on [...]
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Just read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson the first of his three part millennium trilogy published after he passed away. I enjoyed the book a lot, figured no need for a review here as it’s an epic bestseller and it seems like everyone else has already read it. So I’ll only [...]
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On University Avenue in Palo Alto, Calif., about as close to the heart of Silicon Valley as it’s possible to get, there’s a little two-story building not far from the train station. It’s got a vegan cafe on the first floor. Otherwise, it’s not all that remarkable. But for high tech entrepreneurs, 165 University is [...]
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Dr. Peter Tsou of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory once said, “you could take a two- or three-bedroom house, insulate it with aerogel, and you could heat the house with a candle. But eventually the house would become too hot.” So why haven’t we all been spraying our building’s with the stuff? Unfortunately, for the past [...]
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