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Today I heard that LinkedIn now has applications. My first thought was: “Oh greeeeat, pretty soon it’ll look like facebook.”
But the good news is, they have a very small set of apps that so far, seem quite well thought out. In particular I like the SixApart application, BlogLink. It says that it will [...]

I just bought a USB floppy drive from OfficeDepot, so that I’d have a convincingly working, fast floppy drive to use to go through about 100 old 3.5″ floppies I found hanging around in a box when I moved. The floppies were packed next to about 20 Iomega ZIP disks and a NeXT magneto-optical disk. [...]

As I grow older I get more and more interested in what people like me would have geeked out about in their era: whether it be blacksmithing, horse carriages, cars, planes, or whatever. This video was fun to watch this morning, it is a collection of interesting wacky inventions from the 1930′s. Check [...]

I just read that Esquire magazine’s 75th Anniversary issue will have an E-Ink cover that should animate for several months. Here is a video of what the cover will look like:

Pretty amazing stuff! I can’t wait until all magazine’s ship with E-Ink. Oh wait… maybe I can. Can you imagine an entire [...]

This made me laugh – and watch! The Nokia N-Gage website just started a series of videos called “Sauna Talk”, where the head of developer product management for Nokia interviews developers about tools, APIs, and SDKs – in the sauna! Since Nokia is a Finnish company, this makes more sense than you might at [...]