This book (official site) just came out early February 2013. There was a good review in the WSJ on it so I ordered it. Exploding The Phone is the story of phone “phreaking”/hacking form the early days right up through the birth…
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The Newest Manufacturing Revolution
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Absolutely wonderful little column from The Economist via Mr. Jeffrey Tucker. It starts out good, there’s s nice comment about the fetish of manufacturing, and the hits a slam dunk with the final two paragraphs. Manufacturing: The third industrial revolution…
To Be A “Lifelong Pigeon Fancier”
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Fascinating, and fun, story. (pic via WSJ) But I do hope never to be known as a “lifelong pigeon fancier.” Pigeon Defeats U.K. Code Breakers – WSJ.com: LONDON—Britain’s world-renowned code-cracking intelligence experts have admitted they’ve met their match—in a dead…
Creating Jobs Is A Fool’s Errand – Starbucks & Supercomputers
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As we are deep into the political season (seems to be about 11.5 months/year lately) we hear a great deal from every quarter about the need to create jobs. Will this candidate create jobs? Did the last stimulus create jobs?…
Thoughts On Flame, Iran, and Responsibility
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1. If the U.S. government was behind the Flame and/or Stuxnet malware that appears to have intentionally targeted Iran, isn’t that an overt act of war? If we discovered another country’s government did this to the U.S., would we consider…
How A Dentist’s BMW Is Like OLPC
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If we were to survey the driveways of 1000 U.S. dentists, we would likely find a great number of them have BMWs, Audis, MBs, Jaguars, etc. Would it make sense to enact a policy giving BMWs, Jaguars, Audis, etc. to…
Quick Review: Clear for iOS, The Art of ToDo
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Every once in a while a product comes along that just seems perfect in terms of both form and function. Usually it’s something physical, an object. Once in a while it’s a piece of software (or even a beautiful algorithm).…
So Who Decides What Unicode Characters Are Necessary?
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I’ll argue that every once in a while, groups or committees may not be the ideal way to solve a problem. [UPDATE: Today I realized that this post may come across too seriously to some readers. I actually find the…
iPhone Business Bigger Than All of Microsoft?!
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This is kind of mind-blowing (via MG Siegler). Especially when you consider that five years ago the iPhone didn’t even exist. [ Check out this slick infographic of the iPhone's evolution ] parislemon • Size Matters: It looks like Apple’s…
WiFi vs 3G/4G – The Numbers
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Interesting. The Wireless Equivalent of Fracking – WSJ.com: The latest data from Millennial Media shows that, in November, unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrum accounted for 39% of data delivered to mobile devices, up from 32% two months earlier. Not only is Wi-Fi…