Long time no post…but I have some interesting tabs building up on the browsers so I figured I’d post them.

A New Day

Looks like Rove is Retiring – maybe the Democrats can hire him

CEO Libraries

If you look in the book collections and libraries of the super-successful, you’re not going to find any of those business books written by and for the MBA crowd.

Don’t be Evil

Google is turning off their video purchasing service. As a result, videos that users paid for will suddenly cease to be viewable. A new generation of people will learn never to purchase encumbered content, but it’s a shame that Google, with effectively unlimited space and bandwidth, is leaving customers naive enough to trust them out in the cold.

Novel use for Flickr

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Univerity (my alma mater!) announced a way to convincingly fill in arbitrary-shaped holes in pictures by scanning a database of images and looking for one that will fit.

Send in the clones!

Within weeks of the iPhone’s release, Chinese clones are coming out. It is amazing the manpower and infrastructure that goes into cloning everything from cars to consumer electronics. Perhaps it doesn’t have the iPhone’s build quality, but it has two replacable batteries, six speakers, and two SIM card slots. Nuts.

Saving the cavendish

The bananas that you buy in the store are seedless, which means that they are sterile and have no way of reproducing. They are reproduced artifically and every banana tree is an exact genetic copy of the other. Great for consistency, bad for disease resistance.