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Mark and Wes, at the California Pizza Kitchen on Van Ness in San Francisco.
Sites of Interest:
- Fertility treatment may produce fewer baby boys.
- Why we know from genetics that grandmothers play favorites.
- This is the blood thinning drug that Mark is taking that requires a lot of testing to get the right dosage
- Twitter to make money in 2010 with non-traditional advertising
- What is the President and his staff looking at?
- Wes mentioned this EZ430 sports watch and development platform. Mark ordered one from here for only $49 which includes the watch and all the tools. The ordering website didn't actually work to complete the order, so Mark ended up calling the phone number listed in the error message page and ordered it by phone.
- Buffalo USB 3.0 hard drive now on sale and also a USB 3.0 PCI adapter card.
- Mark bought Wes one of these for Bah Humbug day.
- Darpa’s Simulated Cat Brain Project a ‘Scam’?
- Tesla Motors IPO coming 'any day' now
- Changes to Sarbanes-Oxley to ease costs for small firms
- Mark explains why you should only buy an iPhone, not a Blackberry or Android phone or Windows Mobile, because seriously only iPhones can run these essential apps: Balloon Boys, Banjo Hoedown, CatPaint, and Sexy Fruit.
- Geohot's jailbreak for latest iPhones and ipod Touch's including ones with the latest firmware. But note that the very latest models currently being sold by Apple have a serious problem with this: you must connect the device to a computer and re-do part of the jailbreak every time you reboot the device. This is a serious issue for an iPhone because if you are out and away from your computer and something happens to force you to restart your phone, you will be without a phone until you can get to a computer to do the "tethered boot".
- iTimeZone -- World time clock that lets you enter a past or future date and time as well as the current time and see the corresponding date/time in other cities.
- TripIt--That link will take you to search page which shows several apps that interface with the tripit.com website.
- Blower Real Air -- Simulates an air blower on the screen, including making a special sound that somehow causes a tiny stream of air to blow out of the speaker port!
- Crazy Text -- Lets you create messages in inverse and upside-down text.