A couple of quick links since I don’t have tie to write them up properly:
The scariest graph you will ever see.
Live Free or Drown, a Wired article about seasteading. I’m really into the Seasteading concept, even before I read this article and learned that the Patri Friedman behind the project is the son of […]

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Obama Attorney General choice Eric Holder calls for “reasonable regulations on how people interact on the internet”.

I’d wouldn’t define “reasonable” as anything more than “none” in that context, but I have the feeling that he feels differently.

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XKCD is an awesome webcomic.

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John Tierney has an article up about Ray Kurzweil, futurist and author of The Singularity Is Near. If you agree with his ideas, as I do, it will change the way you view both the future and the present.
Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite, but by all means, I implore you to read […]

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The Economist has a great article on the major music labels and their outlook for the future in the face of digital downloads and the overturning of the dominant industry paradigm. Great opener.
In 2006 EMI, the world’s fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers […]

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The first phone to have a touchscreen and play flash games is going to make bank. Why can’t my iPhone do this already? Is Adobe going to support iPhone or Android?

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Just installed the new OS X Leopard. I didn’t have any problems, unlike some, but then I have a fairly clean machine since it’s only a month old (thanks to the criminal element of Montreal).
It’s an incremental rather than a revolutionary improvement. The new features are nice, especially Spaces, the virtual desktop implementation, […]

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Microsoft bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million, pegging Facebook’s worth at $15 billion. Coca-Cola has a market cap of $14.7 billion, so Facebook is worth more than Coca-Cola.
This is pretty good evidence that we are in another tech bubble right now.. but then Microsoft’s actions have lately lacked a whole […]

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This is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
The EatMeCrunchy cereal bowl uses a milk reservoir system to expose only a small part of the cereal to milk at any one time, which means that most of the cereal stays high, dry, and crunchy throughout the meal.
This shelf covers 70% of the […]

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Life gets more and more like Robocop every day.
SA National Defence Force spokesman brigadier general Kwena Mangope says the cause of the malfunction is not yet known.
Media reports say the shooting exercise, using live ammunition, took place at the SA Army’s Combat Training Centre, at Lohatlha, in […]

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In what kind of police state would you find that a purchaser would need governmental permission to buy something from a willing seller?
In this one.
Of course, it’s all about corporations leveraging the power of the state to coerce their rivals. If you are someone who is against corporate power, you should be against government […]

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The Kids In The Hall: Comedians or prophets? This new brain surgery is like hardware Gleemonex.
At his signal, two volts of electricity, enough to power a wristwatch, course through the wires and radiate outward from the tip a few millimeters in every direction. Millions of neurons bask in the electricity, and the effect is […]

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Today is Programmer’s Day, as it is the 256th day of the year, the highest number that can be stored in an 8 bit integer.
So to celebrate, I’m going drinking after work. Not that that’s any different that what I was already going to do.

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New iPods, cheaper iPhone, wireless iTunes store.. It was a big day for Apple. Now I need to decide whether to wait for my contract with Verizon to be up and get an iPhone, or get the new iPod Touch instead.. For the same price the Touch has 16GB vs. 8GB for […]

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Rumors are flying today that a ‘GPhone’ is soon to be announced.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google has already shown its prototype to US companies AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, making it seem clear the Google Phone’s launch will definitely take place in the United States.
Indian blog Rediff said the GPhone will be launched […]

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