Don’t you wish your dog was smart like mine. An article in Science News re the math instinct in dogs was interesting: …Standing at the water’s edge, Pennings throws a tennis ball out into the waves, and Elvis eagerly retrieves it. When Pennings throws the ball at an angle to the shoreline, Elvis has several [...]
Archive for February, 2006
Doggie Math
Posted in GEEKDOM, HEH, LIFE SCIENCES on February 28, 2006 | Comments Off
Vyatta Router
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, GEEKDOM, HEH, SHINY, TELECOM on February 24, 2006 | Comments Off
An open source enterprise-class router from Vyatta methinks will be a disruptive kick for today’s manufacturers. Just read Om’s comments and agree fully. The scramble for open source in networking comes because two primal forces tearing the old telecom order apart. First, the Internet-based technologies are replacing the closed legacy phone systems, thus helping the [...]
Pandemic Plug
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, HEH, LIFE SCIENCES on February 17, 2006 | Comments Off
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have announced formation of a $200 Million Pandemic and Bio Defense Fund. From their announcement: “We will invest in companies developing fundamentally new platforms for detection, prevention and treatment of global, pathogenic infectious diseases,†said Brook Byers. “More than 15 million people worldwide die each year from infectious diseases. Over [...]
Jakob Lodwick and James Hong
Posted in 24x7 FILM EXPERIMENT, GEEKDOM, PEEPS, Vlogs on February 16, 2006 | 2 Comments »
We did our iCollaborated shoot with Jakob Lodwick (of CollegeHumor.com fame) and James Hong (of HotOrNot.com fame) over breakfast. Jakob and James, BTW, are famous for other things beyond the websites they and their colleagues built, but that’s for another day ;) And in addition to College Humor Jakob has another project, Vimeo, which is [...]
Yield Management
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, FILM, REPORTAGE on February 15, 2006 | Comments Off
We’ve been talking about yield management for movie theatres for years. Everyone has said it would never happen. Holy sh*t, the NYT has a piece today with a prediction from AMC: There is no easy fix for industry. But it’s clear that it can’t afford to leave easy money sitting on the table any longer, [...]
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