April 29 12
Congrats to them, but I can never take them more seriously than a supermarket checkout rag.
April 14 12
Our idea will be one of the three being presented to the TED folks. On the TED Blog.
February 23 12
Get this. I got a fixit ticket for a broken tail-light on Feb 1. In California, this means that you have to get it fixed, then go to a designated court, show it to a peace officer, and then pay an administrative fee to close the issue. So, I got it fixed and 21 days [...]
February 15 12
A very fascinating look at how modern browsers (at least the open-source ones) work. Cheers to researcher Tali Garsiel for creating this. [original link on Tail's website]
July 18 11
Hans Rosling’s talks are data porn for me. He illustrates a very important concept – our perceptions can be very far from the truth, and nothing illustrates the truth like good visualizations of data. Let’s hope that one day, enough data will be freed up, and will be in the hands of people in an [...]
June 13 11
I’ve been watching the first season of Glee on Netflix, and while I think that the story is over the top and there’s too much suspension of disbelief, I can’t stop watching it, mainly because it’s just so much fun – Which is precisely how I feel about most Bollywood movies too. Which kinda makes [...]
April 22 11
A collection of stories from around the Web about the Amazon AWS failure and the lessons learned.
April 19 11
On Monday morning, I ended up talking with the hosts of The Takeaway, a morning news program from WNYC. You can listen to the segment here.