SEED 3

The SEED 3 conference was outstanding. Full review of conference and speakers coming soon.

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Metcalfe's Law in Reverse

In college, my senior thesis was based on Metcalfe's law (a network's value is equal to the number of it's users squared). This theory originally related to Ethernet and telecommunications technologies. The classic example being that a fax machine is useless if only …

Principles for Good Design

According to this Gizmodo post, Dieter Rams' (a designer for Braun in the 50's and 60's) work can be seen influencing the designs of one of the most currently prominent industrial designers, Apple's Jonathan Ive.

Dieter Rams' 10 principles for good design:

• Good …

Why So Slow Around Here Lately?

Over the past few months, Not Too Stale has become quite the opposite. The frequency of my posts here have been reduced to a slow crawl. I can legitimately use excuses like being busy with work and the holidays, but the primary reason is that some of my posts have a …

Google Maps to the Rescue

Because Verizon decided to be greedy with the GPS in the Blackberry Pearl (which, along with many other reasons, has made me suspicious of their recent "Any App, Any Device" announcement), users must pay for Verizon's own VZ Navigator if they want any map positioning …

Mantra: Simplicity

Don't be everything to everyone. This is important to remember for people, businesses and in this case, software. Have an opinion. Be loved and hated. Be a strong brand.

This interview/discussion between Walt Mossberg (Wall Street Journal: Technology) and Jason …

Telling the Truth

Without intending to throw so much love towards 37signals tonight, I feel this is worth mentioning. Over the last few hours, I was unable to access the 37signals website in addition to our Highrise and Basecamp accounts (both 37signals web-based products). Here was …

Lucky To Live Here

According to The United Health Foundation:

America's Health Rankings(TM) - 2007 Edition shows Vermont at the top of the list of healthiest states. This is the first year Vermont has been ranked number one. The state has had a steady climb in the rankings for the last …

Learn to Debate [updated]

If you are interested in honing your debate skills, I think I have found an effective method:

Join Verizon Wireless and call customer service, they will debate/argue with you regarding any issue. You are considered wrong until you prove your case. Truly an effective …

15 Lateral Win - Wow!

Having once played football against (and losing to) Millsaps College on this very field, this win holds a special place in my heart. It's great they made ESPN too. Not my alma mater, but these two teams do play in the same conference.

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Gmail Gets IMAP, But No Love for GAFYD

Looks like IMAP is making it's way into Gmail, which is exciting and long overdue. Great news for those who use desktop apps to manage their Gmail. Now changes you make in your desktop app are reflected in your Gmail account.

Although, still no love for it's Google …

Wireless: Intervention for Progress

Walt Mossberg on how the government needs to intervene and free the mobile phone from the carriers death grip:

A shortsighted and often just plain stupid federal government has allowed itself to be bullied and fooled by a handful of big wireless phone operators for …

Shuffle your iPod Playlist

All the years of owning iPods and I never knew they could perform this simple need:

To shuffle a playlist (and not everything on the iPod) go to Settings >Shuffle and change it from "Off" to "Songs" and you'll be all set.

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Touch Media Wall

Ever since I got my hands on the new iPod touch, I have been in love with multi-touch technology. If you are like me and enjoy touch screen technology, and have an extra $100k in your pocket (unlike me), you can pick one of these babies up at Neiman Marcus.

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First Day of Fall

Being the day of the autumnal equinox, fall has officially begun in Vermont, as it has everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere. But, it seems more fun here than a lot of other places. So it is time again for this foliage guide. I am off for a bike ride.

This …

Another Reason To Stop By

As if I have not already been to mini.com enough, configuring and reconfiguring Mini Cooper's; Mini gives me yet another reason to check out their fabulous website. They sent out an email blast with "Secret Codes" that you can type into the search box, on the Mini …

Carbon Copy Cloner Goes 3.0

As a Mac user, Carbon Copy Cloner is my backup software of choice. Mike Bombich's CCC software looks to have just gotten an upgrade to 3.0.

CCC 3.0 features a new interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure more intuitive and more responsive. Users …

Nerd Tax

Bill Maher on the iPhone price cut:

"Early adopters always pay a premium. "Early adopters" being a business term meaning dipsh*ts who stand in line for 6 hours...for a freaking phone. It's not a price cut, it's a repeal on the nerd tax."

"If you didn't have to be the …

Introducing the Book

Hej Du! This post is for Grizz, who seems to repeatedly lose the email message that contains his favorite video... I wonder what my grandkids will be teaching me someday?

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iPod touch = iPhone for Vermonters

...and for all others not willing to be chained to AT&T in order to use the Apple iPhone.

On the downside, why does the iPod touch not include Mail.app or Google Maps, as the iPhone does? It would also be great to see the 16GB of flash memory boosted to 32GB soon.

Oh, …