The other day I mentioned something that got a lot of feedback over email, the gist of which can be boiled down to:
- It’s a Shell executive saying biofuels are bad because they want to sell more fossil fuels
- We already make enough food to feed the world, it’s a distribution problem getting food to [...]
I keep seeing novel ideas for using the accelerometer in laptops like this Google Maps one but I’m still surprised I haven’t seen anyone port games to talk to the device.
Seriously, if anyone knows the ins and outs of gaming applications like MAME, please make me a version that I can use to play Marble [...]
(Amazon’s new Search Inside preview, originally uploaded by mathowie)
I haven’t heard that Amazon updated the “Search Inside” feature with a whizbang new page browsing interface until I stumbled upon it last night. It’s very easy to use, quicker than the old method, and honestly it’s the first thing that comes close to standing in a [...]
1. Sippey talked about the loss of the water cooler effect when watching a TV show on DVD, years after it aired. This week I finally broke down and started watching Lost. The first night I made it to episode 5 and after viewing it, I wondered if there was some way I could combine [...]
After reading an interesting Business Week piece about Eos Airlines, I couldn’t help but notice while I love the concept, and their seating arrangement looks amazing, the price is still out of reach for anyone but Fortune 500 business travelers.
Why doesn’t someone go after the normal everyday traveler that is willing to pay a bit [...]
Apropos of nothing, one of the best pieces of advice Meg ever gave me was to impart a big lesson she learned as an english major writing fiction: show, don’t tell. When writing a story, don’t talk about how bad a character is, write a scene where they do terrible things and the reader will [...]
Why do we forget our childhood? is an interesting look at how language helps forge long lasting memories, or at least, is necessary to retrieval. I’ve heard this hypothesis before from cognitive scientists and I was never fully convinced of it until I thought about the problem with an operating system metaphor.
When we’re born, imagine [...]
I often have dreams that feature technology ideas, but I don’t always remember them and more often than not they’re just goofy ideas. This morning’s dream is somewhat in the goofy category but might be useful to some, and since I remember all of it in detail I’ll relate it here.
So I’m stopping by Andy’s [...]
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