Champagne Velvet

This reminds me of the time one of my computer science professors said that he thought we were all good programmers but there wasn’t a chance in hell he would trust us to do the software on his mom’s pacemaker. It’s pretty hard to think of everything, but I think this one should have been caught.

Who’s Reading Your Cell’s Text Messages?

Bubrouski said he was just being clever when he signed up for a Verizon vText account with the user name ‘null,’ after his parents bought him his first mobile phone during his freshman year at Northeastern, in 2001.

“I’ve been paying for it ever since.”

I hope he has unlimited text messages.

This chess trend is amazing. I love it.

People on board so far:
Zach, Kunal, Appelbaum, Weishaus, Sto, Chaz, Janelle, even Adam Kline on the random subway run-in.

My game has improved by leaps and bounds over the last few weeks and the game is only getting more interesting.

I need to get more organized and this looks extremely interesting.

TechCrunch » Foldera: Never organize your inbox again

Foldera’s approach to productivity is in direct conflict with the way we use applications like Outlook today (just think about how much time we all spend organizing our inbox, filing emails, etc.). Foldera has a better approach (one that seems rather obvious now that I’ve seen it) and they have a chance to seriously disrupt upcoming product launches like Office Live from Microsoft.

Most of us are used to working with email folders today, where an email message can simply be pulled into a folder for easier discovery later. The idea around Foldera starts there. They’ve created an Ajax rich web application that includes email, calendaring, instant messaging, document storage and versioning, tasks and other features into a single web application. Everything is folder-centric

Almost as interesting is that the stock is up 18% today with a market cap of $82.5 MM and they are pre-launch (no revenues).

Superluminal is the word of the day.

Faster than a speeding photon

The textbooks say nothing can travel faster than light, not even light itself. New experiments show that this is no longer true, raising questions about the maximum speed at which we can send information.

…

There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day,
In a relative way,
And returned home the previous night.

Hubbert’s Peak, Current Events

In the January 2004 Current Events on this web site, I predicted that world oil production would peak on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2005. In hindsight, that prediction was in error by three weeks. An update using the 2005 data shows that we passed the peak on December 16, 2005.

I’ve been fascinated by peak oil theory / Hubbert’s Peak since oil hit $40 per barrel. If Kenneth Deffeyes is right AND we either invade or embargo Iran, the superspike will come true sooner rather than later.  The inflation that resulted would drive up long term interest rates and the recession would drive down short term rates eliminating the flat or inverted yield curve we have now.  The real variable would be how Asian central banks (Japan, China, South Korea) would react.