Yesterday I logged into Google+ and immediately became lost. I spent about five minutes playing around and then left. Today I came back and dropped an hour and a half playing with it. Here is what I found, and why I love it: Built-in Profile Ok, I’m a blogger and I want Google to send …
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I’m in love with Google+
Yesterday I logged into Google+ and immediately became lost. I spent about five minutes playing around and then left. Today I came back and dropped an hour and a half playing with it. Here is what I found, and why I love it: Built-in Profile Ok, I’m a blogger and I want Google to send …
M is for Metro
I love this picture. Found it after searching for news on the LA Metro. You might’ve heard that we are spending some time in Hollywood trying to live the ideal life. Which might upset our car free lifestyle and test our theories on urban hipsters. The good news is that LA’s burgeoning bike scene and …
Working Towards The Ideal Life
Back in 2007, Robotchampion and I had a meeting of the minds. We wanted to do what we were doing but outside a firewall. We want to work on cool projects, without being tied to a specific location. Anywhere, anytime, anyhow. We wanted to minimize commuting, which recent research has shown causes a calvacade of …
Information is the oxygen of the modern age
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. Ronald Reagan
Molten salt and the Power Tower, the new solar power
I like to think of thermal solar power as the rock star of clean energy. The technology starts off with the coolest name, the Power Tower. The Tower is surrounded by thousands of adoring mirrors all focusing their attention on it in the center. As the mirrors build up the heat in comes the molten salt …
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Amazon Prime TV to battle Netflix
Do you order a lot from Amazon? Do you also watch streaming Netflix? If so, then you are the unlikely target of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On Wednesday, he posted a memo on Amazon’s homepage asking you to pay $79 to get unlimited two-day shipping and access to over 1,000 movies and TV shows. It’s …
Sensors, Feedback Loops & The Humanity of Surveillance
In Wired’s July 2011 issue, it talks about how feedback loops are providing an exciting opportunity for changing human behavior, presenting the case of dynamic feedback displays, or driver feedback signs, where a speed limit is posted along with a radar sensor that reads your approaching speed and displays it on a digital sign. The …
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Work, Love and Bi-Coastality
Next week, Steve and I will be packing up our place in DC, moving our furniture into storage and heading to Southern California to live for three months as part of a pact we made in December to split our time between DC (where I’m from) and California (where he’s from). We have no grand …
Entrepreneurs Taking on Cabs
A few years ago I was in New York chatting with a cabby. The fellow was dirty, smelly, and overweight but fun to talk to. Especially since we were asking him about the black sedans that were all over the city. You can get in one, trade cell phone numbers with the driver, and have …