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The world's safest table saw

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:00:59 GMT

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esnQwVZOrUU

Wired's 2008 Product Reviews

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:25:57 GMT

Link: http://www.wired.com/reviews/

Headphonies

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:24:24 GMT

Anthropomorphic speaker for your desk.

Link: http://www.headphonies.com/

Browsing the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:47:23 GMT

Words do not begin to describe the awesomeness.

Link: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all

Fitbit

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:46:02 GMT

If you’re into personal data collection, this could be pretty interesting when it comes out at the end of the year.

Link: http://fitbit.com/

Classic computer advertising

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:28:59 GMT

Link: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/08/101-classic-computer.html

Is the long tail right?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:01:26 GMT

This author thinks “no.” I disagree.

Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121493784638920147.html

Lost in E-Mail

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:13:33 GMT

My take: Email is a low-bandwidth tool best used to diffuse responsibility.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/technology/14email.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Up and Then Down

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:44:11 GMT

The New Yorker looks at elevators.

Link: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all

Blue Brain

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:52:13 GMT

Simulating neurons with a supercomputer.

Link: http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/out_of_the_blue.php?page=all&p=y

Zombie Infection Simulation

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:33:24 GMT

Link: http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/

10 New Years Resolutions Every Geek Should Make

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:17:39 GMT

Link: http://mashable.com/2007/12/31/2008-new-years-resolutions/

German ship fights climate change with high-tech kite

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:51:00 GMT

Kite powered shipping.

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/inDepthNews/idUSL1548100520071217?sp=true

60 Minutes's "Titans of Tech"

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:45:48 GMT

Link: http://60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/117/titans_of_tech

60 Minutes's "Titans of Tech"

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:43:09 GMT

Link: http://60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/117/titans_of_tech

Who should Apple buy?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:27:33 GMT

Apparently they’ve been saving some of their profits and might go Christmas shopping.

Link: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/12/07/who-should-apple-buy

Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:14:06 GMT

From Andy Rutledge.

Link: http://www.andyrutledge.com/bad-layout-conventions.php

The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:01:37 GMT

A history of leaded gasoline.

Link: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=932

The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:28:34 GMT

A movie depicting 1939’s vision of technological utopia. Mostly this means an abundance of electric dishwashers, and fewer communists.

Link: http://www.archive.org/details/middleton_family_worlds_fair_1939

A homemade speaker using a plastic cup, business card, wire, magnet and some Lego blocks

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:58:31 GMT

Link: http://www.josepino.com/circuits/index.php?howto-speaker.jpc

A Minor History of Giant Spheres

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:40:08 GMT

Link: http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/27/foer.php

Algorithm draws on millions of images to seamlessly fill blanks in photographs

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:00:58 GMT

I wonder what it would do to a blank page?

Link: http://www.gizmag.com/go/7812/

What We Still Don't Know: "Are We Real?"

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:36:52 GMT

Do we live in a computer simulation?

Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8018371269760059556

Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:36:40 GMT

From the NYT.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5124&en=22efff4469281187&ex=1344744000&adxnnl=0&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&adxnnlx=1187101355-5HWiLxChv9ReqvISlLpTnQ