Archive for April, 2009

BlackBerry & iPhone Battle at Strada

Mark and Wes in Berkeley, CA at the Caffe Strada.
Sites of Interest:

Where are they now? 25 computer products that refuse to die.
Wes mentioned the vaporware Peapod electric car, and Mark pointed out that the Electric Time mini cars are available today.
The Nopopo Batteries from Japan will recharge with urine, blood, and even apple juice! But [...]

Model Airplanes

Mark and Wes in Moraga, CA at the Ranch House Cafe.
Sites of Interest:

Steve Jobs maintains grip on Apple.
Some Safeway stores now have free Wi-Fi as part of a rebranding marketing effort.
Remember ICQ?
Tesla is working on an electric sedan.

Mark sounds skeptical that Tesla will ever ship anything, but they claim they have already delivered 250 of [...]

The Alien Habbit

Mark and Wes in Lafayette, CA at Pizza Antica.
Sites of Interest:

Medieval Tech Support for this new-fangled thing called "books" on "paper".
IBM’s history and a history in ad pictures of IBM typewriters, including the Magnetic Tape/Selectric Typewriter (MT/ST).
The Friden Flexowriter used paper tape to do very early word processing.
The new mp3HD format and information about the [...]