john murrell admires the fellows ingenuity.
taking inspiration from similar ploys seen in the movies and adding a web 2.0 twist an armoredcar robber in monroe wash. escaped tuesday with the unwitting help of a dozen or so decoys responding to a craigslist job ad.
according to reports the suspect wearing a yellow vest safety goggles a blue shirt and a respirator mask approached the truck ... [Show More]
robbery 2.0 Post Source: memex.naughtons.org Posted: Oct 04 2008 09:21:25
lovely story in good morning silicon valley
as a rule most criminals are not particularly bright a fact that gives law enforcement a fighting chance against lousy odds. but once in a while you see a little flash of cleverness that has to be abstractly appreciated despite the way that it was employed. taking inspiration from similar ploys seen in the movies and adding a web 2.0 twist an armoredcar... [Show More]
oh look grand theft auto chinatown wars has reignited the violent videogame debate. what a surprise. last time gta and its publisher rockstar games sparked this kind of outrage it was for grand theft auto san andreas and the infamous hot coffee mod a patch that unlocked an explicit but anatomically improbable sex scene between the games protagonists.
this time the outcry is over the nintendo dsb... [Show More]
le gphone est arriva Post Source: memex.naughtons.org Posted: Sep 24 2008 08:08:51
good morning silicon valley is spot on. its not about phones its about philosophies.
it comes down to closed vs. open. in political terms the apple environment is like singapore where some freedoms may be ceded in favor of providing a pleasant and orderly experience and google with its android platform is like a loud and messy new england town meeting. apple has one iphone a tightly controlled a... [Show More]
petzold mahler 8th not awesomei love mahler but hes definitely not for everyone. in fact it took me at least three hearings of each of his symphonies before i could really appreciate them. in each case i then said to myself how could i not have heard that beforetags mahler charlespetzold symphonies
your system design is so uglythey invented a new design pattern for it praying at the porcelai... [Show More]
qotd Post Source: digitaldaily.allthingsd.com Posted: Sep 19 2008 17:30:33
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so will this approach work history offers mixed guidance. the im a pepper ads were pretty popular but reaching further back the i am spartacus campaign while critically acclaimed did not end well.
good morning silicon valleys john murrell on microsofts new populist ad campaign...... [Show More]
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an epidemic of fear or why terrorism and witchcraft are surprisingly similarspot on paul what we fear is a function of the culture we live in.tags fear terrorism witchcraft
dilbert survey of economistsscott ... [Show More]
earths biggest bookstore in the late 1990s amazon is today earths biggest magazine music video electronics apparel and accessories store. and soon it may well be earths biggest wine store as well. now that winerytoconsumer shipping is legal in 45 states amazon is getting into the wine business.
unfazed by a market littered with the shattered remains of previous online wine retailers amazon amzn ... [Show More]
apple ipod touch 2g Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Sep 10 2008 03:59:40
the second generation of the ipod touch was introduced today at apples lets rock event.
the new ipod touch 2g is lighter by 4 but a bit thicker by 6 than before now comes with integrated volume control buttons a new internal speaker lowres for casual listening and a builtin receiver for nike. estimated battery life is 366 hours for audiovideo up from 225 hours for the firstgen touch.
also ea has... [Show More]
if i go down you all go down. thats the personal philosophy former ca ceo sanjay kumar appears to have embraced after serving a few years in prison for conspiracy securities fraud and obstruction of justice. in a 27page affidavit filed in court tuesday the disgraced kumar claims that several current and former directors were aware of the companys generally unaccepted accounting practices and conc... [Show More]
the apple rumor mill has such a hair trigger that even passing mention of an unreleased product can set it into yammering motion. as happened today after digg founder kevin rose offered up some purported insider information about the focus of apples lets rock media event in san francisco next tuesday. if rose is correctand his record on handicapping apple aapl announcements is decidedly mixedapple... [Show More]
now this is something you couldnt make up
nasa has confirmed that laptops brought aboard the iss in july are infected with the gammima.ag worm adding quickly that the affected machines have no missioncritical duties and are used by the astronauts mainly to run nutritional programs and send email. officials suspect the worm thumbed a ride on a crew members thumb drive and found a fertile breeding ... [Show More]
david spark san francisco based tech journalist and new media consultant reports on the tech industry on tv and radio in print and online. david a leading expert on new media discuses the latest internet social networking and presence awareness trends.
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david spark interviewing former san francisco mayor willie brown
david spark hosting radio show
download this ep... [Show More]
not only rapid deployment but rapid scalability working in the cloud
an impressive claim by an as yet unknown offering linux and opensolaris cloud computing. the way i read the scaling option it sounds kind of 3teraish so be prepared for the limitations that a gridbased solution imposes. on the other hand this is the first regional offering ive seen and i wonder how it compares to gogrid and m... [Show More]
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just read some interesting news about googles big tent plans for the democratic and republican conventions which will have 500 and 200 credentialled bloggers working onsite respectively. for 100 each google will provide net access workspace couches candy buffet smoothies and massages which is almost like working at the googleplex for a day
aits a smart move for google of course butajohn murrel... [Show More]
httpwww.al leyinsider .com20088c itiyepthek indlesahug ehit1billi onforamazo nin2010amz na citigroup analyst thinks amazon will sell 1 billion worth of kindles by 2010. that estimate is a revision adjusted upwards to double previous figures based on recent sales.
mahaney estimates amazon will sell up to 380000 kindles in 2008 up from a previous forecast of 190000 noting that adoption rate would ... [Show More]
might be worth considering this from good morning silicon valley.
if youre looking to get outraged by a governments intrusion into the electronic lives of its citizens you dont need to look all the way to china. the u.s. department of homeland security recently revealed its current border policy on laptops ipods and other gadgets carried into the country by returning travelers or foreign visitors... [Show More]
john murrell says foreign journalists arriving to cover the olympics in beijing are finding theres more than air quality different about the local atmosphere .
appar ently chinas promise that the 20000 foreign journalists covering the olympic games would have unfettered internet access is going the same way as its pledge to provide breathable air up in smoke. ...
early arrivals at the main ... [Show More]
the sponsors of the orwell prize are celebrating the authors 70th birthday by posting orwells diary entries in blog format. beginning august 9 the day orwells diaries began the organization will begin posting his entries on a blog following the same dates as the entries in the diaries allowing readers to follow the authors personal musings in real time simply transposed 70 years.
as good morning s... [Show More]
randy pausch rip Post Source: memex.naughtons.org Posted: Jul 26 2008 23:21:36
from good morning silicon valley
randy pausch the popular computer science professor at carnegie mellon whose appetite for life was only sharpened by a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer in september 2006 has died.
pauschs inspirational last lecture a year later titled achieving your childhood dreams was posted to youtube and became an unexpected sensation viewed millions of times. it evo... [Show More]
links for 20080724 Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Jul 24 2008 08:33:08
adam dusk a elephants all the way up
hadnt seen this one before. fascinatin gsubscribe d.
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school 1957 vs. 2007 iblogthere4im
i might not believe that everything in 1957 was as rosy and normal as randy paints it here but ill agree that fifty years later weve gone way overboard in the other direction.
tags school childabuse add weapons drugs education
libraria n.net... [Show More]
more interesting times for yahoo... yahoo ceo jerry yangs impassioned campaign to keep his job and control of the company he helped found has won over a key swing vote. bill miller chairman and chief investment officer of legg mason capital management said today that if it comes to a proxy shootout at the aug. 1 shareholders meeting legg will vote its 60.7 million shares about 4.4 percent of tota... [Show More]
sign of the times check the full article for an example of how apple can garner praise even when it stumbles apple also said it would for now stop using the word push with its connotation of instant to describe mobilemes transfer of information among devices. while all email contact or calendar changes on the iphone and the web apps are immediately synced to and from the mobileme cloud apple wrot... [Show More]
john murrell of good morning silicon valley has a good post up noting a recent new york times interview where john mccain admits to internet illiteracy. murrell comments
ok if he were the 72yearold guy down the block i could cut him some slack. whatever age you are if you dont have any use for the net if you dont want the hassle of learning all that new stuff fine but if youre running for the hig... [Show More]
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a gyroscope is an ancient navigational instrument that aims at keeping the platform of the magnetic compass exactly horizantal no matter at what angle the vessel surface tilts to amidst lashing water currents. well apples iphone is the first one to feature with a digital gyroscope which however doesnt stand to the expectations of the iphone fans this one has indeed turned out to be an... [Show More]
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