Dare has an interesting post on the way that VCs are now bragging about how they steer clear of anywhere Google might go. I’ve noticed that VCs often think in “big dog”, “Moneyball”, “old boy” terms, so it’s not surprising. That’s the challenge for Umair; he covers all of the same topics as the VCs, [...]
The editor of Forbes is trying desperately to put his magazine out of business. This rubbish belongs in Maxim, not Forbes.
Statistics show that couples are more likely to stay married if each person feels that the other doesn’t have many better options. This is the most important factor in success of a long-term relationship, and if [...]
Congratulations to Seattle for winning the Federal DOT Grant for Remote Infrared Audio Signage! This means that various real-world places around Seattle are going to be annotated with identifiers which can be directionally detected.
This should be interesting to Virtual Earth people, Wikimapia, and anyone interested in tacking metadata to real-world locations.
Talking signs address some scenarios [...]
So, as I predicted when I booted all of my subscribers and converted this blog without copying old posts, my Google PageRank has plummeted (to 3). I have actually brought back most of the old posts, but the URL format is a bit different (although the file at http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/2002/12/22.html exists on the filesystem, WordPress returns a [...]
Aaron Clauset has a rambling post attempting to contrast science favorably with non-science. The key defining difference is easy to sum up; science seeks to disconfirm. The rest of his post talks about things that are shared by science and non-science alike.
He does quote a useful little statement, which can be applied to the “Metcalfe’s [...]