Cringely

I,Cringely Has a (typically) insightful piece into the history of the US TELCO's attempts to increase bandwidth availability to consumers.

It's interesting that he phrases it as a net loss. I wonder if he's looking at Cable as well? or is his contention that we've lost 45 M bps bi-di forever. (Not that I think cable can get us there (ever)) but I'm not convinced that upstream bandwidth EVER needs to equal downstream (to the home).

to look for comparison: Fios and Cable Bandwidth.

On Competition

why we compete - washington post

"Nonzero sum, mutually beneficial relationships (cooperation) affect evolution, just like the zero sum (competition) ones." - slashdot poster on Competition V Cooperation in Darwinian evolution

Paul Greengrass - NEVER go see another movie from this director.

which is a shame, because Bourne Ultimatum is a fun movie, great pacing, decent job distinguishing sets, nice post production job.

from the Giz

DARPA toys
Boats And a guy who jumps out of airplanes with a rocket strapped to his back.

Manhattan or Bust!

Some folks are still trying to escape from brooklyn.

Physics today

Manitoba university physicist John Page along with CSM professor Roel Sneider (Center for Wave Phenomena (@CSM)) have some interesting work on the physics of beer bubbles

Fake Steve Jobs

groklaw: evidently PJ has a history with Daniel Lyons of Forbes. the Unmasking