Technology

Amazon.com: Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion (Scribner Library of Daily Life): Books This is an example of how an algorithm can mess things up. The suggested book that would be “Better Together” with the Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion is Encyclopedia of Rape. I guess the Amazon website sees “Encyclopedia” in both items, and thinks … Continue reading »

Film Set for iPod nano Nice protection for your iPod nano that doesn’t add much bulk. I still wouldn’t mind a skin with a clip though.

CBS News | Gaming Grandma Slays Competition At the age of 39, I thought I was getting a little bit old to play games. Old Grandma Hardcore Blog

Online shoppers set to storm the Internet Monday / Consumers use workplace’s faster computers for e-commerce It would be interesting to do an annual comparison of retails sales of Black Monday vs. Black Friday.

San Jose Mercury News | Fry’s Electronics You can tell if you’re a nerd in Silicon Valley if you pick up the San Jose Mercury News and the first thing you go to are the Fry’s ads on the back of each section. Of course, you could always go online at the link above and … Continue reading »

Official Google Blog: First Base I’d love to hear how the backend of Google Base is set up since I set up the databases here at work, but I guess that will remain a company secret. This is a nice use though of Googles multitude of machines.

Small Business Trends » Case Study: Moving a Business Blog from Blogger to WordPress Good post on why this person moved from Blogger to WordPress.

Google offers Silicon Valley home free wireless Internet – Yahoo! News This is great as a resident of Mountain View. I wonder what the coverage and speed will be once everything’s implemented. I read somewhere else that 1,000 of Google’s employees lived in Mountain View.

AnandTech: Inside Microsoft’s Xbox 360 In order to keep the Xbox 360 small, they had to make an external power supply. From the picture, you can see it’s about 1/3 the size of the Xbox 360 itself! I really hate external transformers. That gray brick must also be pretty heavy.