Yahoo! News – Da Vinci: Inventor of car? — Any time you’re a little blue, realizing that the vision you have for a great product or service will take years if not decades before it’s a viable business proposition, think…

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

Di and I were on the floor at the Warfield in SF last night, checking out The Offspring . I’ve been a fan of theirs since… wow, ’93?!… but have never had a chance to catch them live. WHAT A…

Sony pushes paper Blu-ray disc | CNET News.com: “The two companies have been working for about a year on printing data onto Blu-ray discs made mostly of paper. The companies are aiming to produce lower-cost discs and expand the use…

Yahoo! News – Expert warns California to brace for big quake by September — A bold prediction (even if the geo area is quite large), and a huge breakthrough if there is substance behind it. Worth watching closely…

Yahoo! News – Purported Bin Laden Tape Offers ‘Truce’ Bin Laden, the anti-Ghandi.

Yahoo! News – World’s Oldest Worker Quits at 104: “Two years ago, at age 102, Crist was named America’s oldest worker by a nonprofit training group called Experience Works. He started at Messiah at age 70, after a career in…

John Battelle’s Searchblog: NEWS: A9, Amazon’s Search Portal, Goes Live: Reverberations Felt in Valley And… it rocks. – Good search results (licensed from Google!) – Very nice integration of Amazon commerce (just books for now)/Search-Inside-The-Book – Optional Search History tied…

Yahoo! News – ‘Apprentice’ Star Omarosa Fired 4 Times I’m long overdue for some serious blogging, which I hope to do soon, but I just can’t pass this up. I’ve watched The Apprentice faithfully (and am looking forward to next…

“There Goes the Neighborhood” by Benjamin Wallace-Wells — While you may not agree with Benjamin’s analysis of Greenspan’s words and actions, the facts & figures he shares in this article are insightful and profoundly scary. More so then ever, I’m…