For sale in the UK: Vintage mobile phones. What more is there to say? Simply awesome.
The Motorola DynaTac 8000, pictured above, is reminiscent of the model that Michael Douglas (aka Gordon Gekko) barks into while walking along the beach in 1987’s Wall Street*.
*How come no one told me there’s a sequel in the works?
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A gave me a supremely cool gadget for Christmas: The Asus Eee PC. I’ve been using this most compelling toy subnotebook productivity tool for over three months now.
Here are 10 things you need to know about […]
Question Box is a simple means for allowing people living in rural India to access the Web:
Question box is a simple telephone intercom. Its purpose is to connect people to the Internet. It requires no literacy or computer skills.
Users place a free call by pushing the green button. They connect to an operator sitting in […]
Big Think is a sort of YouTube for intelligent debate, with public intellectuals weighing in on a variety of topics. The New York Times has the back story.
Related deep-thinking site (but with more text and fewer videos): Edge.org, a longtime favorite of mine.
(Thanks to BA for the link.)
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The Usborne Book of the Future was published in 1978 and envisions the world in the year 2000 “and beyond.”
Some of my favorite predictions include:
– the human-robot space exploration teams,
– military troops transported by rocket and then dispatched via armed “hovercars,”
– these crustacean-like aliens pondering high-tech crystal balls,
– (under the heading 1991-2000) sunlight-reflecting […]
Mark Hurst writes one of my favorite blogs, Good Experience. It’s all about customer experience and usability — essentially, how organizations can create products, services, and Web sites that are more helpful and easier to use. For the past five years, Hurst has put together Uncle Mark’s Gift Guide and Almanac. The 2008 edition is […]
AFP:
Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has boasted of being an “Internet expert,” reports said Saturday.
The communist state keeps itself closed to the outside world to prevent so-called spiritual pollution from subverting its hardline socialist system.
Kim told delegates at this week’s historic inter-Korean summit his Internet expertise made him reluctant to allow further access to […]
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I get a lot of questions about Skype — people ask me how it works and how I use it. So here’s a description of my setup. I’ve found Skype to be enormously helpful in communicating with friends, family, and colleagues all over the world. And I’m amazed that so many of my friends — […]
In today’s Ask the Pilot, a Salon.com column, the author tackles “wind shear, aging planes and the safety of budget airlines.”
(Image via Airliners.net.)
Springwise.com:
Quick update about MyFootballClub, which we wrote about when they launched in May. The venture, which hopes to harness the wisdom of crowds to manage a professional league soccer team (or football club, if you prefer), has just reached its target of 50,000 members. If all members follow through and pay their GBP 35 […]
My cell phone rang at 2:41 a.m. today. I had been in a deep sleep and was more than a little confused when I answered.
Me: “Hello, this is Newley.”
Woman with an American accent: “Oh, Hi is this John in…?”
Me: “Sorry, no. I think you have the wrong number. This is Newley in Bangkok.”
Woman: “Oh, wow, […]
UPDATE (August 18): I’ve done some additional tweaking and settled upon a design. Finally. I invite RSS subscribers to click through and view the updated newley.com in all of its newfound graphical glory.
UPDATE (August 9): I’ve changed the design. Again. Sadly, not everyone shared my passion for the ultra-minimalist layout I was using a few […]
Snooth “promises to revolutionize the way people choose wine. By combining the company’s proprietary algorithms with the world’s most comprehensive wine database, Snooth is able to accurately identify the wines best-suited to an individual.”
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Scrivener is a remarkably useful Mac-only project management and writing application. I started using it a few months ago, and it’s quickly become a must-have.
First off: if you mostly write memos or simple documents that require strict formatting, then you should stick with Word. But if you’re a Mac user looking for something to […]
Tim Ferriss’s Low-Information Diet is based on the principle that in order to be most productive, we should spend as little time emailing — and as much time actually working — as possible.
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