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World's Subways Converging on Ideal Form http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/subway-convergence/ --- Sent from Zite personalized magazine webOS app. Available for free in the App Catalog www.zite.com -- Sent from my HP TouchPad

Fantastic.. How Much Money You Need To Realistically Recreate The Scrooge McDuck ‘Gold Coin Swim’ by  Matt Powers April 20th, 2012 After executing smart mortgage derivatives and diversifying high yield stocks, cash should start flowing freely, leaving the smart investor with even more questions, like “how do I protect my municipal bonds?” and, “should I invest in a C-Share or blend fund?” and, “how much money do I need to create giant floes of gold in a private vault and dive into it like Scrooge McDuck?” In most money circles ( insider tip: “money circles” is a term used by only the most elite investors ), wealth is measured exclusively by how closely one can recreate this famed animation. It has come to represent success in America and anything less than doing the backstroke amongst a sea of Earth’s rarest metal should be considered an abject failure. A main problem of this measure, however, is that there is no agreed-upon Scrooge McDuck quantity of gold....

Yeah, I have a tablet. And I have a laptop. And I have another tablet. And a desktop. And a dual-core 4.3' android phone. And another tablet. And an ereader. But the most versatile device I have? My 10' netbook. Yeah - its not as fun to use as the tablets. But damn can you get a lot more done. If you want to have a really productive email session - tablets suck. With swype (in my opinion) they are a little bit better, but typing is still a chore. But my netbook? Great keyboard. Better than any iPad keyboard out there, I bet you anything. All of this helps explain why I am so freaking pissed at Google for their new interface. It is terrible. I mean really really terrible. Worst Gmail Ever - By Far As you can see, if you (like me) put your chat bar on the right, once Google decides to add its freaking enormous new ad bar, I am writing in a window about 100 pixels wide!!! WTF Google. And not only that, there are now 3 (!!!!!) vertical scroll bars - one for the text, o...

So, I recently picked up a WikiReader for $13 from a one-sale-a-day site. I liked the idea that it ran on AAA batteries and could last "a year". I figured that since it came from Openmoko (a little open source company) it would probably be easy to hack. Turns out - you don't even have to. While it advertises itself as "Wikipedia without the Internet" - it actually also comes with the ability to download all of project Gutenburg. You either need to wipe wikipedia to do this or get a bigger microSD card (16gb) to hold them both. If you have a spare 4gb microSD card then, you get most of wikipedia (some articles are missing) and tons of great books all on one device. While some sites say that it runs on three AAA batteries - it runs on two. And here is where the infinite solar part comes in. As you may know, small cheap garden lights typically run on one 300mAh AAA NiMh battery. These little garden lights are often for sale at Walmart etc for $1. Buy two o...

We have landed on the moon a few times. But the last time that a person set foot on the moon was 1972: 40 years ago. Given the current plans of the major space powers, it is unlikely that we will go back before 50 years have passed since Apollo 17. Why? More specifically, WHWMIBTTM? Map of Moon Landings - Manned and Unmanned  And the thing is - it hurts. It hurts because I might be 40 before I see someone land on the moon. Which is ridiculous, considering it first happened over a decade before I was born. But lets look back on human history, and try and figure out why people explored and moved, and when similar events (though on different time scales) occurred in human history. 1) The Vikings in North America The Vikings came to North America first. They had some pretty large settlements too. But then they left, and no European would return for about 400 years. Why? Because there was no money to be made. There was little to no industry at that point, and the ...

With the US winding down from the largest military confrontation since Vietnam, there is going to be a fair bit of surplus available.  Specifically, in the last few years of the conflict, the military (finally some might say) started deploying large numbers of MRAPs (Mine Resistant Armor Plated vehicles) - about 20,000 of them. Most of them are currently seeing use in Afghanistan, but in a few years they will be coming back home... Freaking Awesome And the thing is, they are amazing vehicles which have saved a lot of lives.. but they are not really that useful outside of terrorist zones.  So, what is to happen to these mighty machines? Well - come about 2016 or so, you just might be able to buy one. In the rush to get these things deployed, there are actually a whole range of different types (probably ones of the reasons they are too expensive to keep around after the fact - that and their gas consumption), and some of them would make perfect RVs for vac...

So, Android has passed 50%, which is pretty significant. At the same time, Microsoft is flirting with Palm webOS levels. Obviously, the new N900 is trying to change all that, but they definitely have an uphill battle (what with market share falling and all). Apple actually managed to gain the first little bit in a while, probably on the back of cheaper phones and the marketing gimmick which is Siri.

I am about to graduate from a top MBA program... and one website has accurately captured what it is I have learned... scale killer e-markets incentivize frictionless solutions maximize viral platforms utilize bleeding-edge supply-chains integrate transparent ROI envisioneer next-generation infrastructures disintermediate strategic mindshare innovate customized convergence benchmark bleeding-edge functionalities generate collaborative functionalities Actually - this comes from a hilarious generator (if you have been through the MBA/Startup/Silicone Valley wringer) http://dack.com/web/bullshit.html