Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

Maybe those folks at the creation museum are right after all.  Nah. IFTF’s Future Now: Chronology

Now I will be the first to admit that the ideas of getting users involved in the creation of the manufactured products they use every day may sound far out to some.  It of course, seems like its happening every day to me.  However the extension of social production concepts to bio-tech is not something…

Interesting post over on LifeHacker about approaching life with a scientific mindset, specifically as a way to solve problems.  I have long held the view that one of the reasons I have been successful in what I do is my engineering background.  The engineering method (regardless of discipline) is all about focusing on what can…

.!. Great video that gets the key point of Dave Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous in about 5 minutes…take a look if you don’t want to read anything but still be able to keep up with the cocktail party conversation, this is the link for you. YouTube – Information R/evolution Dracula 3000 film

Have already dis-integrated after a few trips through the washing machine. Never really wondered why (assumed they would when I bought them for about $5), but this book goes in to why there are so many RR dealers in China. Chinese luxury market — all smoke and mirrors? – Boing Boing wallace gromit in the…

This needs no comment…but it is laugh out loud funny (the death art excepted). Monkey wars in India – Boing Boing

One customer that presented this week at the Innovation Leadership forum was Jet Propoulsion Laboratories.  They gave a great talk about what it takes to develop new ‘robots” (by their definition anything that moves without direct human intervention) that see some of the most extreme conditions immaginable with some of the most delicate scientific intruments…