Archive for November, 2006

AaronSw Sellout?

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

Reddit, the one company that would never sell out, has sold out.  Aaron was the guy who gave them their “indie cred”, and he’s trying hard to maintain that cred.  Right now, he’s experiencing the angst of realizing that money doesn’t buy happiness.  But that will pass when Wired bids up Reddit’s attention to pull 10x […]

Murderous Elephant Sophonts

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Gregor links two news articles I also noticed.  The most recent says that Elephants pass the test of self-awareness, like apes, dolphins, and man.  The other is about maurauding bands of violent orphan elephants.  The journalist cited in NYT draws a parallel between human war orphans.  The theory is that elephants actually learn civil behavior […]

The 15th Wonder

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Almost by accident recently, I found myself at what is surely the 15th wonder of the world, which I relate here for history.  Long after the world descends into nuclear winter, the remembrance of this place will inspire myths of toy heaven, labyrinths of many rooms, and santa claus.
30 years ago, YiWu China was a […]

Due Credit

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Don Park, you should know better!  Don comments on the “Add Live Search to Your Site” announce, saying “better late than never”, and “nice reactive move”.  Does he really think that we saw Google’s announce, and then real quick-like, implemented the feature and shipped it in response?
The fact is, both we and Google were working […]