I am running the SF Marathon. Damn. What did I just sign myself up for? I’ve run a marathon before - the Phillie Marathon in 2002. I think Oprah had a better time than me when she ran one. I was on track for a 3:30 time when my IT band flared up at mile [...]
Wow! What a speech, I definitely felt as if I were watching history. Barack’s assessment of race in America was inspiring. Not only was it a clear eyed discussion of our nations past and present on matters of race but then tied it up to themes of social justice, opportunity and fairness.
More information porn below. Interesting article from the Nytimes on the projections of data consumed by video on the internet and how it breaks down by transfer mechanism (i.e. P2P, email, streaming). While internet video continues to grow, it still does not command the same type of audience that TV does on a simultaneous level [...]
The San Francisco Ferry Building Farmers Market is amazing. Especially now that we are moving into spring. Got their early today and missed the tourists. Today’s stash included baby artichokes, heirloom beans (some of the oldest known to man), Oregon white truffles, Himalayan black truffle, garlic curd, a guava, a cherimoya, baby avocados, Russian kale [...]
At first glance a pretty impressive site. The clipping and sharing functionality is great. Here is the opening scene to one of the all time greatest TV shows that I have clipped down. Oh if only they had let us keep developing Jumpcut.
One of the most exciting areas of new technology to me these days is the user interface and specifically multi-touch interfaces a la Tom Cruise in Minority Report. The iPhone does a pretty neat job of this but what really excites me is the idea of a drafting board interface. Microsoft Surface is one prototype [...]
What’s interesting to me from this Dow Jones visualization is how little variation between the candidates there are. Particularly Barack and Hillary.