My co-worker, Kevin, recently filmed the pilot episode of a new reality series on “A Startup in a Week”. A team of startup guys, including Adam Loving, built a Facebook app to raise money for good causes like building a school in Cambodia.
There are 5 episodes, and some fun drama — debates over how to monetize the app, […]
Here is a tutorial for getting Windows Server instances running in EC2. Might be a nice stop-gap in the short term. I will be trying out these instructions shortly.
Dave Winer is lamenting that it’s not too easy to find cheap/free firewood nearby. He makes some great points. Eric Schmidt of Google says it right; we are still in the infancy of this technology.
But it’s getting better every day. For years, I have been trying to locate information on UGO, a Nigerian rapper who […]
The Levi’s commercial covering ‘Walk the Line’ is presumably a light piece about young love, but it’s got an undercurrent of ’suffocated love‘ that’s undeniable. The phrase, “because you’re mine” has always been jarring to me. I remember one woman I knew many years ago, who explained to me “I want to have a baby, because then […]
So, I recently finished Dunbar’s “Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language”. Although I am not convinced about Nostratic, Dunbar gave more than enough material to convince me I was right about past/future tenses in Chinese and English. I think it is pretty obvious, and was probably common sense to people with access to Alexandria library.
I […]