August 2008
3 posts
You looking at me? Oh, no, wait, you're looking...
Yesterday I was up at the GE Global Research center in Niskayuna, NY. The town is just outside of Albany, though until the day before I drove up there, I would have figured it was closer to Kyoto. I got a whirlwind tour of the center, moving from one linoleum-floored lab to another. One of the most intriguing inventions, I thought, was an attempt to marry security cameras with gaze-recognition...
Come on Zuckerberg, make my life easier
I wish Facebook had actually bought German copycat sight StudiVZ, as they were reportedly thinking about doing before suing the site. I hate having to constantly update my German profile when I¹m changing the American one. And don’t even get me started on the problems I’m having with my QQ page.
If Marc Cuban were a jockey
Saw in the recent Blood-Horse (the what? You don’t read the definitive guide to thoroughbred breeding and racing?) that Halsey Minor, founder of CNET is talking about buying Hialeah Park, a decaying, one-time temple of horse racing located outside Miami. Minor made his fortune taking CNET public in 1996 (CBS recently bought the company for $1.8 billion). Now he wants to get into...