Alex Tabarrok comments on Marginal Revolution:
Digital Cash
A glamorous Whole Foods market just opened in my neighborhood. You can pay for your groceries using just the swipe of your fingerprint. Cool.
Christopher Monnier said on the comments:
Cub Foods (owned by Supervalu) in Minneapolis has had this for a while, but I’m hesitant to sign up […]
Randolph Harrison goes into Second Life, expecting to make a quick buck via market arbitrage, and realizes that getting money out of Second Life might not be as easy as getting it in.
Enter the second problem, the L$ exchange markets are effectively rigged. At any given time over the past year or so, the […]
Jennifer Granick writes on Wired:
My laptop computer was purchased by Stanford, but my whole life is stored on it. I have e-mail dating back several years, my address book with the names of everyone I know, notes and musings for various work and personal projects, financial records, passwords to my blog, my web mail, project […]
Joel Spolsky has written a review of Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code, a book about the development of a personal information manager called Chandler. Started by Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus Corporation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and one of the people behind Go Corporation (a company whose life and death is chronicled in […]
You don’t need me to tell you anything. Actually, you probably shouldn’t even read anything more about the movie. You should just go watch Children of Men.
Consistent pictures of what 200 calories look like, for those on a diet and thinking what to eat. Found on the same search: snacks under 200 calories.
Yes, that’s way little butter.
More programming geekery.
What follows is pure programming geekery. I should probably get a separate blog for this kind of stuff, but for now, non-programmers please move on to another one of our fine sections.
Q: “Who was the first man to walk on the moon?”
A: “You know, some people don’t believe that happened. They believe it was reincarnated in Arizona.”
And that’s not the silliest one.
China destroys one of their own satellites, Washington protests.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — China last week successfully used a missile to destroy an orbiting satellite, U.S. government officials told CNN on Thursday, in a test that could undermine relations with the West and pose a threat to satellites important to the U.S. military.
According to a spokesman for […]