Remember 1993? Clinton succeeded George Bush Senior as the next US President, The Buffalo Bills became the first NFL team to lose the Super Bowl three times in a row and the moon was bright and I mean BRIGHT! Well today and today only, the moon will be the closest it has been since 1993
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Some things won’t change because they remain untouchable; Cheers to all you entrepreneurs that have personal capital to invest into your companies (Ratio 1:1 million). But unsuspected larger bodies of ‘power’ will lose because of simple things like cash and margins. What ‘Nifty-50’ will take the dive this time? In the 1970’s we saw indestructible
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I must have drank some seriously potent iPhone Kool-aid while I was in San Fran for the Web 2.0 Summit. Ever since I have been back all I can even think, dream or talk about is the huge potential behind the iPhone. The problem is that some people, in some cases even Apple, do not
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So I found this link yesterday thanks to twitter and couldn’t help sharing it with all of you out there. The only reason we all have a copy of this right now is because Yahoo has been firing people like mad. Given the inter-connectedness now of tech communities around the world, it has been very
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Here is a really interesting post I found today about what this author calls the so called ‘death’ of the Y-Combinator model. For those of you that do not know what Y-combinator is, it’s a start up incubator that basically takes good ideas with strong passionate teams, gives them a bit of money to build
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I must have drank some seriously potent iPhone Kool-aid while I was in San Fran for the Web 2.0 Summit. Ever since I have been back all I can even think, dream or talk about is the huge potential behind the iPhone. The problem is that some people, in some cases even Apple, do not
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Dan Woods, who is the Associate Publisher for O’Reilly’s Media Makers Division was just recently interviewed by the Magazine Publishers Association. O’Reilly is one of those forward thinking publishing houses who really understands the digital space and is not afraid to take risks here and there for the sake of innovation. Dan talks about how Make and Craft magazines
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Interesting article I read from EcoGeek via Greentech Media… http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2346/. I never knew that computers and LEDs ran on DC power… hybrid AC/DC buildings might be the way of the future for consumer cost savings and overall sustainability. Brief overview of DC Electricity http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/dc.htm
Can someone please help me logically justify the rate of return on “investing” $12 billion a month on the war in Iraq? Is that really what the oil reserve in Iraq is valued at? I assume more if you include inflation over the past 5 years. WTF. For more insane statitics from US Senate and Congressional Services
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I love ideas which turn accepted orthodoxies on their heads. In this case, the science, fiction, and science fiction perspective on the future of transportation has long been the flying car. Imagine being stuck in traffic and then blasting over the jam, touching down and taxiing right into your driveway. Cool, but I’ve never seen
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