This posting about Mag+ , a possible future digital magazine, is a very well considered design. The short video is well worth watching.

I had this device idea for meetings and was wondering if you have seen anything like this. The core of the idea is Google Street View techno...

"36. Mangle-wheel and pinion -- so called from their application to mangles -- converts continous rotary motion of pinion into recipro...

Today's email contained this: A Congressman was seated next to a little girl on the airplane. He turned to her and said, 'Let's ...

A friend tweeted some time ago about being able to open any Macintosh's application's minimized main window using a consistent comma...

I get too many emails from advocacy organizations attempting to keep me aware of them and their work. They need to find a way to to do this ...

I have been learning Spring 2.5 for the last few days. My usual method of learning a new tool is to buy a book skim the book in chapter o...

O'Reilly has a promotion allowing you buy the online copy of any (?) print book that you own for $4.95. When I looked at my bookcase wh...

"Hell Froze Over: Fuel Economy Now More Important Than Number of Cup Holders to U.S. Car Buyers" Too funny not to keep.

So far the easiest way to switch from browsing on my Mac to browsing the on the iPhone is to shorten the URL using bit.ly and then manually...

I love that Flickr users tag their photos of my home town Dartmouth, Devon, UK .

This morning's Providence Journal contained the story "Rhode Island can’t see if its tax breaks are doing their job." Here is...

Clay Shirky on how much free time we have and what could be done with it if you do the math. US households watch 200,000,000,000 hours of TV...

"Who Is The Earth? Moral philosopher Mary Midgley delivers a talk concerning differing and changing attitudes to our planet and our env...

If you have a misbehaving keyboard mapping when you connect to a tightvnc VNC server running under Ubuntu from a Macintosh OS X using any of...

Update: The Providence Phoenix's Adam Reilly has an interesting article about Beck's intelectual foundations. See Latter day taint: ...

You can keep up to 1 gigabyte of data in SimpleDB without paying any storage fees. You can transfer 1 GB of data and use up to 25 Machine H...

I love this bi-fold PDA that is shown towards the end of Microsoft's excellent A Glimpse Ahead Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 . Apple...

Ten apps for taking photos and editing images on the iPhone