Never mind the jet packs, here’s the diapers.com
You know you’re in the future when you read this in Businessweek: “They have sensors and they’re supposed to stop if they see you,” says...
Category: technology
Among the groups that regularly use science over faith: business. That’s worth celebrating.
As much smack as I talk about the business community, I prefer to side with organizations that invest in science rather than faith. Here are the headlines from ...
Taco trucks, Twitter and the next Apple tablet.
Yesterday I saw a group of working class Jose’s standing around a taco truck at midday eating lunch. There were four or five pickup trucks parked near the...
News as meat: raw vs. aged prime, ground vs. choice cuts.
Or, to fight commoditization, provide analysis. I pay to read The New Yorker because its reporters provide a service that is rare in the information marketplace...
Essay mills, outsourcing and black markets.
You know your higher education system is fucked when kids are spending $200 per plagiarized essay. Clearly, any kid spending that kind of money on an essay shou...
Are there two types of feedback for ads, click-through and click-off?
I’ve seen two electronic ads today I was happy to “reject”: one for a conspiracy video and the other for Meg Whitman. In the case of the forme...
A total guess on Pandora’s “random walks”.
My guess is that when you first launch a Pandora station it begins at the dead center of the Venn diagram created by all the people who have also endorsed/reque...
Imagining a movie about /b/, the other social network.
We’re weeks away from the release of a movie which chronicles the making of a popular social network. I am reading the Encyclopedia Dramatica and having a...
The promise of networked suburbs and shuttering college dropout factories.
Urban Legends: The hipper the city, the mantra goes, the richer and more successful it will be — and a number of declining American industrial hubs have t...
Are Bansky’s graffiti examples of augmented reality?
An example of a Banksy intervention (graffiti!) that introduces a new meaning by changing the visual interpretation of a physical space.
The iPod Nano and augmented reality.
While likely to get some kids jumped, the new iPod Nano is a brilliant step towards augmented reality. Note how yesteryear’s band buttons have now become ...
Like “Rock Band” for the “Dog Whisperer” set.
A video game that captures not just your movements but also those of your dog. Fun for the whole family. Come on, Kinect developers, let’s see what you...
The “got it” rule for passing and AI chess.
My friend Matisse E. taught me a great trick: when you’re carrying something heavy and you are going to hand it over to someone else, you don’t let ...
Omni. Meaning lots of links and not that magazine with the cool covers from yesteryear. Sadly.
The Browser is my favorite site of the moment. The below excerpts are taken mostly from it. · “I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it ...
“Phones unfortunately more widespread than food.”
Matthew Cordell writes: The WFP has announced a new twist in its successful program using mobile phones to alert Iraqi refugees in Syria about available food ai...
On unsubscribing to BoingBoing, thanks to Google Reader, curiosity and time.
There was a time, before I always read MetaFilter and Andy Baio’s waxy.org/links, before I checked Jon Gruber’s Daring Fireball and Bruce Schneier&#...
Hiding in plain sight and plethora.
And here I thought Google was already doing this for the U.S. government: In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putti...