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The Universe in a Glass of Wine

Great video narrated by none other than the great Richard Feynman, whom I consider a hero. Enjoy!

Strange Use of Apologetic Quotes

Nothing rings in a new year like terrible package copywriting. Right?

Review: The Biggest Stories of 2013

One of my favorite tech culture websites, The Verge, has an excellent recap of the biggest stories of 2013. From Edward Snowden, to Twitter’s IPO, to Elon Musk to Bitcoin, 2013 was an interesting year, to say the least, with many businesses opening online with sites where you can post your ideas or get free

LINK: Mugger Rejects Flip Phone

A Central Park mugger was so disappointed by his victim’s cheap flip phone that he actually refused to take it. “Once he saw my phone, he looked at it like, ‘What the f–k is this?’ and gave it back to me,” recalled Kevin Cook, 25, of Brooklyn. So, two things here: 1. Having a cheap

‘Misunderstood’

“This Kid Might Outlive RIM”

Over at Businessweek, there is a fascinating piece entitled The Rise and Fall of Blackberry: An Oral History, which details the rise and fall of the Canadian giant from different personal perspectives. Here’s one from Vincent Washington, senior business development manager at RIM from 2001-11: One thing we missed out on was that Justin Bieber

How to Improve at Chess Rapidly

Gautam Narula on how one can get better at chess pretty quickly: The tl;dr of this training plan is, play a lot, analyze your games, and primarily study tactics. Your knowledge of openings, endgame, middlegame, etc. will come from analyzing your games and going over grandmaster games. Only study one of those specific topics if

“How Strange”

Lia Pas, writing about how strange it is that relatively new technology can suddenly feel very old in the face of the newest technology: How strange that technology that is only three years old feels cludgy in our hands now. How strange what high expectations we have for responsiveness from a thin board of glass

Personal Clouds: We Really Have Come Full Circle

In early 2012 I wrote a blog entitled, Mainframe, Distributed, Personal, Cloud – Back to Where We Started? My hypothesis was how we have come full circle – mainframe back to “mainframe-like” in order to access the applications we somehow cannot live without.  Except now these apps reside in a “cloud” somewhere in a massive server farm

“Jony Makes Some of His Greatest Decisions While Having a Drink”

Fascinating article in Vanity Fair about how Jony Ive and Marc Newson collaborated for Product Red: In 2007, at Larry Gagosian’s town house, following the opening of the Newson show, Bono spoke to Newson about the possibility of doing something for Product (Red). Bono has also known Ive for years. They met through Steve Jobs,