January 2010
21 posts
R.I.P J.D.
Not much to say here. Speculation aside, I really hope I’ll someday have the chance to read some of the unpublished writing he undoubtedly pounded out for the past 45 years.
My cousin Lee tells a great story of seeing Salinger on a train between New York and Amherst, and another of a girl who loathed the author.
The Economist’s Democracy In America blog posted Holden’s State of...
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Apple Predictions
I often like to post my predictions the night before an Apple event.
This has long been anticipated… since the original iPhone was released, fanboys, journalists, analysts, everyone has dreamed of a multitouch computing experience delivered with the Steve Jobs seal of approval. There is no question that tomorrow is that day. It’s been nearly impossible to avoid the painstakingly...
Note to self:
Devote more energy to things
Read those books
Clean your room
Get your shit together
Boxee Blog » Coming soon: Boxee Payments →
As if the big networks weren’t pissed off enough with Boxee, here comes Avner Ronen knocking it out of the park with the announcement of the Boxee Payment Platform.
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GDrive Is Live
The long rumored “GDrive”, an online storage solution provided by Google is finally a reality. In a post today on the Official Google Docs Blog, Product Manager Vijay Bangaru announced that you’ll soon be able to upload any file up to 250MB to Google Docs, with 1GB of storage free. Additional storage will cost $0.25/GB per year.
This will be a great solution to backup and access...
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The Tel Aviv Cluster - The New York Times →
David Brooks writes about Jewish accomplishment and the concentration of entrepreneurs and high-technology firms in Tel Aviv. Most astonishing are these achievements:
Jews make up 0.2% of the world population but account for…
54% of world chess champions
27% of the Nobel physics laureates
31% of the medicine laureates
21% of the Ivy League student bodies
26% of the Kennedy Center...
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