Musings from the Peanut Gallery

Business Week has a blog post with comments about why people are switching to the Mac.

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Gapingvoid pointed out this blog post on Twitter. In it, Clay Shirky discusses the social sea change that we are in the midst of, and how it will affect us.
He points out that some sociologists suggest that the critical technology of the industrial revolution was gin.
The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, [...]

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SpaceX announced a couple days ago that they recieved a launch services contract for the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles.Technorati Tags:SpaceX, NASA, Launch Services, Falcon 1, Falcon 9

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Anywired, a blog I just added to my list of bloggers I follow, has a post about becoming a Lifestyle Entrepreneur.I mentioned tweeted on this post this afternoon, and Pam Slim picked up on it and mentioned it on her blog, including using my name with a link to my website. So that’s a [...]

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Paul Graham has an interesting post on the idea that startups that look like charities. He mentions Google, Craigslist, and others. He even mentions Microsoft in the early days.

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At long last, the LensGames website is operational. We have animal pictures posted at this time, but none other.Technorati Tags:Photography, Lensgames

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Tim Berry links to this three minute 38 second John Doer talk concerning the differences, and which one is more likely to succeed.

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Here’s a post on Putting Things Off discussing the ways to get free or low cost alternatives to the expensive Name packages.Technorati Tags:independent software development

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Joel Spoelsky has a blog post on the battle between the web purists and the pragmatists and IE8. Its an interesting look at standards, and web standards. How we got to where we are today, and what it means for the future.
Bottom line, there’s no right answer, just some answers that are better (less wrong) [...]

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I’ve been using Twitter recently. I’m john146 if you want to follow me.

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