February 2008
“RFID-enabled sponges that alert surgeons if they are being sewn into patients”
– RFID Startups Go After Lucrative Niches - O’Reilly Radar
“20 million songs were sold on Christmas Day 2007”
– Macworld | Apple now No. 2 music retailer in the U.S.
“Let’s go crack a planet”
– Starship Troopers 3: Starship Troopers 3 Trailer Shows Superbugs In Action
“# Watch what people actually do.
# Do not believe what people say they do.
#...”
– Coding Horror: I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users
“One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar.”
– Overcoming Bias: My Favorite Liar
“If I am building software that I don’t use and don’t know how to use...”
– Coding Horror: UsWare vs. ThemWare
“the [Irish] iPhone will be available in an 8GB model for €399 and a 16GB model...”
– SiliconRepublic.com: O2 confirmed as iPhone carrier for Ireland
“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with...”
– A great quote about size - (37signals)
“[iPhone] 1.1.4 is out and there doesn’t seem to be anything major”
– Jason Madigan » Blog Archive » DON’T PANIC
Watch20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog)
“Well, I can let other people use the landing strip, if they have...”
– Why We Banned Legos - Volume 21 No. 2 - Winter 2006 - Rethinking Schools Online
“The most common mistake he sees entrepreneurs make is … putting in...”
– ireland.com - The Irish Times - Fri, Feb 22, 2008 - Kawasaki to visit Dublin
WatchBehave yourselves!
“Pornography-Desensitized Populace Demands New Orifice To Look At”
– Pornography-Desensitized Populace Demands New Orifice To Look At | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“Goldstone found that the fully connected groups performed the best when solving...”
– The downside of a good idea
“Our old view, that the Solar System had nine planets will be supplanted by a...”
– Life On Other Planets: A Second Earth in Our Solar System
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice,...”
– Theory and Practice - (37signals)
“Schellenberg’s two-stage model is easily capable of reaching altitudes of...”
– B.C. inventor wants to put pop bottle rocket into orbit
“find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to...”
– Six Principles for Making New Things
“Angela Belcher’s lab at MIT has created an entire factory of trained...”
– Mad Engineering: A Battery Made by Bioengineered Viruses