December 2008
November 2008
The Royal Society of Chemistry is today reclaiming the word chemical from the...
– RSC Press Release: £1,000,000 for 100% chemical free material?
The new Mets stadium is called Citi Field thanks to a $400 million contract with...
– Hit & Run > Best Sports Stadium Name Ever? - Reason Magazine
How I listen to music, step by step
1. Put on a good track
2. Turn that shit up when it’s good
3. Repeat
WiMax & Robots
I’ve had a number of discussions about WiMax, but they were mainly about robots. Wifi is ridiculously bad at range and scaling over connected users. WiMax has been touted as the solution, where you can remotely teleoperate a swarm of robots from far away.
That capability implies teh functionality you can power with WiMax. An example: hundreds or thousands of people live streaming video from...
High speed mobile data connections are about to become very cheap because of...
– Fractals of Change: Mobile Trumps Fixed Broadband – Comm Prediction #2
Rafer sez: Infinitely more importantly. WiFi+Whitespace is all we need.
Ivan sez: Actually WiMax is an enhanced technology that drastically affects range and speed. Speed really matters, and ubiquity is all about range....
if only Nixon were wearing your Aviators…
– Twitter / hudson.lines: @tipjoy Yessss! feeling is …
I’m a big believer in the broken windows theory. I was living in NYC when...
– pg on HN
I bought another case of Rock Star. Expect architectural changes.
– Orion Henry, developer at Heroku (via jraines)
But to the libertarian, the antecedent inquiry is whether the state has any...
– Why License Marriage? - Forbes.com
An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a...
– hot soup? anyone?
SoundCloud: The Tour on Vimeo
I love the track - and the service looks pretty cool
It is by design that the default parameter to a function parameter is evaluated...
– Hacker News | “Is that by design” - Well, yes and no. Try to forget the specific context for t…
There are only two players in the music business that matter at the end of the...
– Ian Rogers (via betaworks)
finally found the pic I've been looking for to use...
I won a lot on a casino cruise in Ft. Lauderdale. I got the highest hand of evening 4 6s with a Jack kicker - beating four 2s.
My i-heart-capitalism hat distracted a lot of people :)