Archive for February, 2009

A Garden Hose in Paris

Mark and Wes in Lafayette, CA at the Swad Indian restaurant. Sites of Interest:

Amazon officially announced the Kindle 2.
E-ink devices will soon be in color.
Modern Flash Memory is like the ancient core memory in that they both retain their bits when power is removed.
Wes mentioned an idea from the TED Conference, Homo Evolutus.
Bill Gates [...]

Boobs Not Allowed

Mark & Wes in Concord, CA at the Korean Bulgogi House.
Sites of Interest:

Scandal in the FartApp space: FartnBurp claims to be the first to have farts and burps in the same app, but we reviewed one last week which had that and more.
The author of a great Rubik’s Cube solver talks about marketing his product [...]

The Humpy Thing

Mark & Wes in Oakland, CA at Sura Korean restaurant.
Sites of Interest:

Information about Carpal Tunnel syndrome. Article that claims mice are more the cause than keyboards. Catalog of weird types of keyboards for people who do have this.
Mark bought this vibrating Wake UP alarm which alerts you if your head nods forward while driving or [...]