Apple announces final MacWorld, Steve Jobs won’t deliver keynote

Chalk this one up in your history books ladies and gents. You may not be a geek or lover of technology, but the fact that Apple just announced that this MacWorld will be the last one in history is big news. MacWorld is a major Apple trade show. It’s the location where Steve Jobs launched [...]

Have yourself a Merry Little BetaMax-Xmas.

Growing up in the 1980’s Betamaxmas reminds me of all those nights watching holiday specials . The website is set up like an old school television room around Christmas time.  The wood paneling is epic.  Via the power of the Tube of You, you can watch TV treats all day.  Look at the TV guide [...]

Breakthrough: Scientists Extract Images Directly from Human Brain

Pink Tentacle reports that researchers at Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed a system that can “reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor.”
Scientists Extract Images Directly from Brain: Pink Tentacle
The scientists were able to reconstruct various images viewed by a person by analyzing changes in their cerebral [...]

Watch the Brightest Moon Since 1993 Tonight

 
Remember 1993? Clinton succeeded George Bush Senior as the next US President, The Buffalo Bills became the first NFL team to lose the Super Bowl three times in a row and the moon was bright and I mean BRIGHT! Well today and today only, the moon will be the closest it has been since 1993 [...]

Capitalism isn’t dead. How things have changed starting yesterday.

Some things won’t change because they remain untouchable; Cheers to all you entrepreneurs that have personal capital to invest into your companies (Ratio 1:1 million).  But unsuspected larger bodies of ‘power’ will lose because of simple things like cash and margins.  What ‘Nifty-50’ will take the dive this time?   In the 1970’s we saw indestructible [...]

Yahoo’s Secret Layoff Double Speak Revealed

So I found this link yesterday thanks to twitter and couldn’t help sharing it with all of you out there. The only reason we all have a copy of this right now is because Yahoo has been firing people like mad. Given the inter-connectedness now of tech communities around the world, it has been very [...]

Y Combinator is Dead

Here is a really interesting post I found today about what this author calls the so called ‘death’ of the Y-Combinator model. For those of you that do not know what Y-combinator is, it’s a start up incubator that basically takes good ideas with strong passionate teams, gives them a bit of money to build [...]

Who Said Books Had to be Written on Paper???

I must have drank some seriously potent iPhone Kool-aid while I was in San Fran for the Web 2.0 Summit. Ever since I have been back all I can even think, dream or talk about is the huge potential behind the iPhone. The problem is that some people, in some cases even Apple, do not [...]

Bringing Sexy “DC” Back

Interesting article I read from EcoGeek via Greentech Media… http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2346/.  I never knew that computers and LEDs ran on DC power…  hybrid AC/DC buildings might be the way of the future for consumer cost savings and overall sustainability. 
Brief overview of DC Electricity http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/dc.htm