Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that operates as a cell phone display, with the potential for 3G video calls that are visible just underneath the skin.

Dunno what to say about this other than:

wat

Electronic tattoo display runs on blood

TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans. TripIt is free and makes it easy to...

* Quickly organize your vacation and business travel - no matter where you book
* Automatically get itineraries with all your plans, weather, maps, restaurants and more
* Easily access your itineraries via paper, email, personal calendar or mobile device
* Share your trips and see where you overlap with friends and colleagues

See About Us for more.

This is like Dopplr, but actually useful, because you populate our tripit by forwarding your ticket/hotel/car rental confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com. It auto populates your tripit account and sends out an iCal stream of your travel.

Nice when you work in an international company and you never know where anyone is, as they don't manually update the calendar.

TripIt | Organize your travel

The National Cryptologic Museum is the National Security Agency’s principal gateway to the public. It shares the Nation’s, as well as NSA’s, cryptologic legacy and place in world history. Located adjacent to NSA Headquarters, Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland, the Museum collection contains thousands of artifacts that collectively serve to sustain the history of the cryptologic profession. Here visitors can catch a glimpse of some of the most dramatic moments in the history of American cryptology: the people who devoted their lives to cryptology and national defense, the machines and devices they developed, the techniques they used, and the places where they worked. For the visitor, some events in American and world history will take on a new meaning. For the cryptologic professional, it is an opportunity to absorb the heritage of the profession.

Oh, the places I'll go...

National Cryptologic Museum

Due to a sale/elite status, it is only $159 for me to fly to outerz0ne from Daytona Beach airport, in first class, plus $80 for the hotel.

However, a 6 foot swell is coming this weekend.

Priorities... hmmm...

Outerz0ne 4 | This might be habit forming...

Okay, so I’ve been thinking about this for a while and it’s finally time to test the waters and see if I can pull off this event. At the last Startup Dinner, I mentioned that I’d like to do a startup focused pitch event. The idea would be for startups to get up on stage and do a (strictly enforced!) three minute pitch on their company. I’m calling this event Startup Riot.

Target Audience

The invited audience will be three pronged so that all interested startups will have one or more groups to pitch.

Introducing Startup Riot - Bilgistic.com

It's not that I don't see value to social networks, it's that I generally don't see ENOUGH value. Yes, keeping my address book synchronized with reality is nice, but isn't that likely to be shortly absorbed into the operating system or perhaps into networked applications like Gmail and Yahoo Mail?

This trend has happened over and over as hundreds of portals came and went, leaving a few survivors. Same for hundreds of search engines, hundreds of free e-mail services, etc., etc.

Marshall McLuhan argued that obsolete communication technologies survive as art forms. This is true, I'd say, for Morse code and movable type printing and perhaps even for your venerable Rolodex or typewriter. But it isn't yet true for CB radio, nor for most Internet technologies. Maybe they aren't old enough yet to be appreciated. In the case of CB I think range of reception limits the possible population of players to something less than an artistic critical mass.

What will likely happen to social networking is that some applications will survive on a more modest basis than now (used by the trucker equivalents), others will morph into some new Next Big Thing as their more compelling sub-applications take over, and true hard-core social networkers will jump to more advanced technologies that eliminate the riff-raff. In the meantime, 70 percent or so of most social networking functionality -- the really useful functionality -- will be sucked into the dominant portal/search/e-mail/chat/social networks like MSN and Yahoo.

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Antisocial | PBS

Net::Wake - A package to send packets to power on computers.

perl -MNet::Wake -e "Net::Wake::by_udp(undef,'00:00:87:A0:8A:D2')"

Net::Wake - A package to send packets to power on computers. - search.cpan.org

Welcome to JNode.org, the website of the Java New Operating System Design Effort.

JNode is a simple to use & install Java operating system for personal use.
It runs on modern devices.

Any java application will run on it, fast & secure!
JNode is open source and uses the LGPL license.

JNode.org | :: ~ JNode.free(yourMind); ~ ::

Spreadsheets are error-prone, unwieldy, and often contain out-of-date data. They are difficult to manage and time-consuming to correct. One bad formula can ruin hours' worth of work. Still, business users just can't seem to break the spreadsheet habit.

Despite spreadsheets' well-known drawbacks, many workers continue to use them for a multitude of reporting and analytical tasks, even as better alternatives beckon, according to a new report from San Mateo, Calif.-based Ventana Research. Users are simply too comfortable with Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet programs to make a switch, the report said, choosing instead to live with the consequences.

BI users can't wean themselves off Excel

CSS Cheat Sheet

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