TeleConference with Video (more)

Mobile OS used by Nokia and many other Cell Phone makers (more)

a SmartAscii format/library (more)

Back in 2005 Noam Wasserman wrote that an Entrepreneur has to decide whether he wants to be Rich (Sell Out) or King (Life Style Company). (more)

David Brin wrote a fun Tinkerers Comic Book about Maker-s as the saviors of America, vs decline-of-EmPire.

For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets (Twinkie) every three hours (that's 150 calories each), instead of meals. To add variety in his steady stream of Hostess and Little Debbie snacks, Haub munched on Doritos chips, sugary cereals and Oreos, too. His premise: That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most -- not the nutritional value of the food. The premise held up: On his "convenience store diet," he shed 27 pounds in two months... His body mass index (BMI) went from 28.8, considered overweight, to 24.9, which is normal... Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent... Before his Twinkie diet, he tried to eat a healthy diet that included whole grains, dietary fiber, berries and bananas, vegetables and occasional treats like pizza. Good Diet?

Dave Winer says with billions of feeds updating all the time, (RSS is) pretty much like FaceBook, without all the money.

Rachel Maddow interviews Jon Stewart after the Rally To Restore Sanity. Wow. (more)

aka Body Mass Index (more)

Are we facing a new DotCom bubble? (more)

The low-power XBee 802.15.4 and extended-range XBee-PRO 802.15.4 use the IEEE 802.15.4 networking protocol for fast point-to-multipoint or peer-to-peer Mesh Network-ing. (more)

Clive Thompson on Open Source Hardware. Arduino, LinkSys, possible Open Automobile; Co-Creation, etc. No mention of BugLabs or Open Cell Phone ideas.

The Tea Party is going after EarMark-s. (more)

A case study in applying Lean Startup thinking to an Embedded Hardware product. *Every industry on Earth is currently undergoing a disruption that is causing it to move along both axes: more uncertainty and faster cycle times. (more)

OReilly partner (more)

Argh, two people in tech-media with the same name! (more)

Barnes And Noble has a new Nook-Color coming out. Is this more of a general Tablet than an EBook reader? Just $250... (A commenter thinks the specs look very inferior to the Archos70.) (more)

Tom Igoe on Shan Zhai manufacturing as relates to Desktop Fab. There are some obvious parallels here to the Open Source Hardware community... A few years ago, Clay Shirky described an approach to software development that he dubbed Situated Software... What open hardware companies and the shan zhai point to is a world of Situated Manufacturing (more)

Buster Benson One Man Show - Real World Game to improve your habits around health (Physical Fitness) (more)

Today we released Facebook Places, a new way for people on Facebook to share where they are, see where their friends have checked in (CheckIn), and discover interesting places nearby. As part of the rollout, we're making Places available to developers via the Graph API, so you can integrate location features into your own mobile applications, websites, and applications on Facebook. (more)