Archive for June, 2007

Forecast for today

Posted in Design 1 year, 6 months ago

Crystal Weather Station

The Crystal Weather Station from Oregon Scientific sports a kick-ass form factor. It has laser engraved 3D icons of sun, clouds and rain in crystal and a radio controlled digital clock. You can even change the display mode between the time and indoor temperature with a wave of the hand.

Semel out

Posted in Business 1 year, 6 months ago

I just read that the CEO of Yahoo!, Terry Semel has stepped down. Jerry Yang, the co-founder, has taken over as CEO. We’ll see if Jerry can do a Jobs-style come back to save Yahoo!

I’m a big fan of Yahoo!, and delicious and flickr are two destinations that I use multiple times everyday.

Project BlackBox

Posted in Computing 1 year, 6 months ago

Project BlackBox from Sun is a fine piece of engineering. It’s a highly compressed datacenter to provide extreme efficiencies in energy, space and performance. Below is a video that puts the box through an earthquake simulator. This is very cool.

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