July 2009
55 posts
AIGA Memphis - What Makes A Design Intuitive →
AIGA Memphis, the professional association for design, is hosting Jared M. Spool for a presentation on What Makes A Design Intuitive at 2pm. The event is open to the public and targets anyone…
Why Generation X Has the Leaders We Need Now -... →
Barnes & Noble Offers Free Wi-Fi →
Barnes & Noble is sharing the Wi-Fi. Starting now when you go into a Barnes & Noble you will have complimentary in-store Wi-Fi. “Barnes & Noble pioneered the concept of retail stores as…
Make Free Outgoing Calls with Google Voice &... →
Network Solutions Data Breach →
Network Solutions, the domain registration and hosting service company, were victims of a massive security breach. The breach occurred between March 12, 2009 and June 8, 2009….
CakePHP: the rapid development php framework. Home →
NYT: Traders Profit With Computers →
edge over typical traders, let alone ordinary investors. The Securities and Exchange Commission says it is examining certain aspe
Nissan Zero Emission Vehicle With Inductive... →
Nissan plans to include inductive charging technology for its upcoming Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV). Nissan’s thinking is you would pull the ZEV into a special parking spot and charge the…
Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without Hitch →
First Tata Nano Delivered →
Earlier this year we followed the development of Tata Motors’ Nano. If you remember this is the world’s cheapest car with a price tag of around $2,500. The first Nano was sold to a…
RingtoneStudio 2 for iPhone: Create iPhone... →
Logic Users Group | Forum →
Don't Let Them Disarm You by Chuck Baldwin →
Thomas Paine said, “[A]rms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property … Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the…
Predictably Irrational » Blog Archive » We’re... →
“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are more often influenced by the things that ’seem’ than by those that ‘are.’”
-16th-century…
The value of advice (by Alon Nir) →
A few days ago Dan wrote about Don Moore’s research on how we accept advice from others. A lab experiment showed that subjects adhered to advice from confident, not necessarily accurate, sources. The…
Hirsh: Milton Friedman vs. the Fed Bailout |... →
Augmented reality business card →
Check out this guy’s augmented reality business card…
AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.
Sci-Fi-O-Rama →
Our Exponential Future →
…King Shihram was a tyrant who oppressed his subjects. One of his subjects, a wise man named Sissa ibn Dahir, invented the game of chess for the king to play, to show him that a king needed all…
Using nature to inspire design →
Nature inspires innovation. This inspiration is called biomimicry. But, nature’s designs are based on the “good enough” principle – while we may often want to optimize certain variables in our…
India issuing biometric IDs to all 1.2 billion... →
Great Online Tools for Small Businesses →
You have an idea, you have done your research, and you think you have a winner. Now it is time to do the other part. You know, the part where you do some work and create your vision in…
George F. Will: High price for repaying unions :... →
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=111401026... →
Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface: The Complete... →
Virtual reality combined with online identity →
Virtual reality as applied on mobile devices seems to be a concept area that is getting more attention lately. Here is a concept video of an idea for combining virtual reality, the mobile phone, and…
Cross Reality Will Change Your Life, But at What... →
During my meeting at MIT with Joseph Paradiso, Associate Professor and Director of the Responsive Environments Group at MIT Media Laboratory, we discussed how connecting environmental sensors to the…
Google's new data-center cools with weather... →
Chrome Builds for the Mac →
Hybrid2 public bike concept promises to help power... →
TwitVid for iPhone 3GS →
TwitVid makes it easy to tweet the videos you shoot on your iPhone 3GS. The application is free. [iTunes, TwitVid]
Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity by Peter Schiff →
In a free market, demand is always a function of price: the higher the price, the lower the demand. What may surprise most politicians is that these rules apply equally to both prices and wages. When…
information aesthetics - Information Visualization... →
BBC NEWS | Health | Coffee 'may reverse... →
When you succeed with Free, you are going to die... →
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Why... →
But is there a better way of choosing individuals for promotion? It turns out that there is, say Pluchino and co. Their model shows that two other strategies outperform the conventional method of…
The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship - You’re the... →
Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE... →
Another Doctor "Goes Galt" | Medpolitics, A... →
Let me be clear. I don’t believe that people have a “right” to health care; because, what advocating such a “right” basically means is that you believe you have a “right” to my mind; you have a…
Solar Powered Airplane →
Solar Impulse is the first 100% solar-powered airplane. The project began on November 28, 2003 and the plane is going to fly around the world.
The plane will travel at an average speed of…
Why You Need to Fail - Peter Bregman -... →
50 COMMON INTERVIEW Q&A « Bhuvana Sundaramoorthy’s... →
My first day of work is tomorrow. How will I do?... →
I’m switching to C programming to make an iPhone app. I’ll also be doing Ruby on Rails coding.
100 Best Blogs for Those Who Want to Change the... →
Google Applications Leave Beta →
Yes it is true. Starting today, Gmail, Google Talk, Calendar and Docs are no longer in beta. You want find any major new updates with this announcement. Certainly this is a marketing…
McDonald’s Charging Stations →
While you are sipping on a McCafe Latte you can charge your electric vehicle. McDonald’s is opening the first “green” restaurant in Cary, North Carolina on July 14th. The restaurant is…
The Choice of Cities (via feedly) →
[from The Technium]
Cities are technological artifacts, the largest technology we make. Their impact is out of proportion to the number of humans living in them. As the chart above…
ABC Programming on Hulu →
Hulu today now offers content from ABC. The first show Hulu will offer from ABC is episodes of Grey’s Anatomy. Hulu promises to offer other popular ABC shows later on this year.
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Free Wi-Fi in Venice, Italy →
The residents of Venice, Italy now have access to free Wi-Fi. The city laid ten thousand kilometers (6,250 miles) of fiber optic cable. The project provides Wi-Fi over the entire city….
Mind mapping tool for BlackBerry →
