Jack Odell, 1920-2007

Of course you are probably wondering who Jack Odell is… he’s the creator of the venerable Matchbox toy. For $20 you can get an entire garage full of these indestructible toys, and regardless of how old you are you can still have fun with them.

My son has an entire basket of hot rods, race cars, [...]

Camera Phones and Citizen Journalists

Man was I ever wrong about camera phones…. I seriously didn’t see that one coming at all. Looking at this image on Drudge following an underground steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan it is clear that camera phones have had a significant cultural impact.

Plaxo at Mashup Camp

I was at Mashup Camp today and saw a couple of interesting companies, but the one standout was Plaxo. While watching the demo I commented out loud "wow, that’s like a Facebook feed but for the rest of the web" and just as I said that, Foremski looked at me and nodded "yeah". Cool stuff, [...]

What Would You Do?

"On June 25, Delta Flight 6499 left the gate at JFK bound for Dallas. It finally took off seven hours later."

I was reading about recent flights that were stuck on the tarmac for unreasonably long periods of time and wondered what I would do in such a situation. What would you [...]

Trip Down 16K Memory Lane

My computer has a 48K memory. Since each K represents 1,024 bytes of information—each byte representing one character or digit—the machine can manipulate more than 49,000 items of information at a time. In practice, after allowing for the space that The Electric Pencil’s programming instructions occupy in the computer’s memory, the [...]

What to Make of It?

Is it just me or has anyone else thought that the Dow hitting 14k and the dollar going to a new low against the Euro on the same day is just weird?

Blackberry 8820

BlackBerry 8820 dual-mode WiFi-cell BlackBerry announced by ZDNet’s Russell Shaw — As had been widely expected, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion announced the BlackBerry 8820 today. RIM points out that the BlackBerry 8820 is the first dual-mode BlackBerry handset, combining EDGE/GPRS/GSM cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity for data access and voice support through [...]

The Future of Enterprise Software

There was an event last week called iMeme and they had an interesting panel with a bunch of very senior enterprise software executives. Here’s Barrons’ coverage of the one panel in particular:

"So, let me get to what is the most interesting takeaway here: enterprise software companies need to figure out a [...]

iPhone iSatisfaction iFantastic

"In one of the first such studies, 90% of 200 owners said they were "extremely" or "very" satisfied with their phone. And 85% said they are "extremely" or "very" likely to recommend the device to others, says the online survey conducted and paid for by market researcher Interpret of Santa Monica, [...]

The Consequences of Biofuels From Food

Achieving the 15 percent [domestic fuel] goal would require the entire current U.S. corn crop, which represents a whopping 40 percent of the world’s corn supply. This would do more than create mere market distortions; the irresistible pressure to divert corn from food to fuel would create unprecedented turmoil.- Henry I. [...]

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