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June 14, 2011

Remember those subscriber cards you found tucked into magazines that asked questions about your income, education, sports you liked, where you traveled or what newspapers you read? The editors and advertisers of that magazine were trying to find out more about their readers. Except for the folks that took the time to write in, an [...]

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Leaving Finland

May 29, 2011

Tomorrow I leave Finland, our home for the last two years. It’s always bittersweet packing up, leaving behind an empty apartment, and closing the door on a phase of your life.  Today, on my last night, I am philosophical. To be honest, it was a bit rough and it’s probably best to reserve judgement on this [...]

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Seth Godin on Changes in Publishing

May 19, 2011

Seth Godin’s is a prolific writer and a champion for the book business. That’s why he wants to save it, but not in a format you would recognize. The Domino Project is a joint venture with Amazon to rethink the way books are, “built, sold and spread.” In a piece written earlier this week, Seth [...]

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Spielberg does Tintin in 3D

May 17, 2011

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson will release The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, as a 3D film in December. The posters were revealed today and the first clips are rumored to be online tomorrow. I was a huge Tintin fan growing up so I’m curious to see what happens to the characters [...]

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Mikael Granlund’s Amazing Hockey Goal

May 14, 2011

Just in case you missed it. 19 year-old Mikael Granlund scored an amazing goal in last night’s hockey game putting Finland over Russia and into the Final. All eyes on Mikael and Finland in Sunday’s match against Sweden. Go Suomi! UPDATE: Finland wins! Helsinki celebrates!

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View Source Parody

May 12, 2011

A derivative work surfaced the other day, helpfully linking itself to it’s source material. Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says Bin Laden is Dead, Obama Says This is Mad Magazine territory.

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Cloud Computing through the Ages

May 12, 2011

The Network is the Computer – Sun Microsystems – 1990s Nothing but Web – Google – 2011 Two perspectives on an old idea, twenty years apart. For a humorous perspective on Silicon Valley spin, check out Larry Ellison’s schtick at the Churchill Club, “The Cloud is Water Vapor.”

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Julia on Violin

May 10, 2011

She’s been wanting to play for years. and now she’s now learning to pluck the strings. Yesterday, Julia received certification from the Royal College of Music.

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MyBlogLog Memorial Screenshot Gallery

May 9, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I grabbed a bunch of screenshots off of MyBlogLog.com. MBL is one of the services on the infamous “sunset” slide and today there is a notice on the site saying that Yahoo will pull the plug on the service on May 24th. I worked on the service before coming to [...]

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Information as Entertainment

May 3, 2011

OK, so word is out that Solid State Drives (SSD) are not as reliable as they were once thought to be. Essentially, we projected the decades of expertise that have gone into making hard disks reliable onto these new drives and expected more or less the same level of reliability. Of course, as people started [...]

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