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Interesting piece of technology. Must have for celebs. Too bad it's only for flash photography.

Food for thought. Luckily you won't gain weight by consuming this… unless you do it sitting down.

MySQL Workbench is a cross-platform, visual database design tool developed by MySQL

Handy setup guide to setup up a home FTP server. Quite handy for transferring files to the ipod touch.

Fusing a keyboard to pants – now that's innovation. Too bad only one half works.
And a video of them in action – http://blip.tv/file/2095987
via http://hackaday.com/2009/05/11/keyboard-pants/
via http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/12/diy-keyboard-pants-destined-for-the-geek-catwalk/

Interesting way to represent stuff. Not sure how long this link will work though – looks like a temporary one.

Is the customer really the king?

A humorous way to calculate the money wasted on meetings.

I wonder whether this could have any practical applications. Also they should try doing it for Bollywood & see what they get.
'The key thing is having shots of similar length that recur in a regular pattern throughout a film'… However, 'He says that a good narrative and strong acting are probably most important.'

Interesting idea & they do look like the real stuff too

A healthy dose of geekiness

And you'd think that the legal sources would want to save you time…

Interesting way to look at things
via http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_the_internet_can_impede_democracy.php

A nice little benchmark comparing CPUs across the last few generations. Includes the P4 & boy does it get toasted.

Burglary 2.0? The site uses location information from twitter & the like to list "special" opportunities. Another nail in the privacy coffin?
Aim of the site: 'The goal of this website is to raise some awareness on this issue and have people think about how they use services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz etc.'

'A few weeks ago it occurred to me that there's a very real possibility that the next breakthrough in advertising itself is its convergence with e-commerce. Buying an app from the Android Market, I realized how those of us with smartphones have become accustomed to seamless purchases on our phone. That is, we search for an app, and then we buy it, directly from our search vendor. '

'Daniel Johnson makes remarkably accurate Olympic medal predictions. But he doesn't look at individual athletes or their events. The Colorado College economics professor considers just a handful of economic variables to come up with his prognostications.
The result: Over the past five Olympics, from the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney through the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, Johnson's model demonstrated 94% accuracy between predicted and actual national medal counts. For gold medal wins, the correlation is 87%.'

They say that the medium is the message. A focus group is a medium. And it lacks the magic of commitment. A full-page ad in the Los Angeles times that says, This Is It, is a message in and of itself. And it's loaded with commitment. You'll never find out the existential truth about anything — a product, service, or anything else — by sending the wrong message. It's the difference between "Will you marry me?" and "I'm trying to decide whether or not to marry you on the basis of whether or not you will say yes to me. I'm not really asking you, but what would you say if I did, hypothetically?

'Statistics aren’t evil. They’re just a bit like the weather – hard to really predict.
And as they say about economists and weathermen – they’re the only two jobs you can keep while being wrong nearly 100% of the time.'

Why it's important some kind of tagging so that bots can interpret & classify posts.

I wonder what the radicals would have to say about these

The next few years are going to be pretty interesting. It seems to be heading for another war like the one on the PC platform. Given Apple's closed strategy, it would be good for them to open up or perish like they did last time. Things will get really hot once Google's bets pay off & mature & the pieces start falling in place.

Why flash is important for the web and how Apple's stand is hurting its customers

A handy guide on how to open those winmail.dat files received by mails sent in Outlook. It apparently happens due to the rich text format being used in Outlook.

FSF's point of view of the iPad

A nice commentary on the problems, particularly its closed nature as it aspires to be a true portable computer.

IBM does have a rich internal ecosystem that promotes social interaction through various online platforms, and many of them are being converted into enterprise products.

Starfish vs spider analogy

A handy online tool that lets you upload photos & gives you the printable form to make a kaleidocycle.

A really different look for sure

A real variety of roads ranging from mountain stretches to busy city roads. Quite a bunch of spectacular photos too.

Handy site to keep track of iPhone/iPod apps & special offers