Miscellaneous Ramblings

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A Visitor’s Guide to Silicon Valley

This post offers things to see/do for two types of visitors: "I’m just visiting and want a ‘tourist experience’" (i.e. a drive by the Facebook / Google / Zynga / Apple building) or "I want to work in the valley" visitor who wants to understand what’s going on inside those buildings.

U.S. Catholic Church blesses iPhone app as aid for confession

… Choose from 7 different acts of contrition

Peter Thiel: 21st Century Free Radical

Never mind enormous yachts: Peter Thiel is spending his billions on space travel, life extension, artificial intelligence, and paying top students not to go to college

Teen’s speech to lawmakers on life as son of gay parents is Internet hit

"There’s an element of surprise because he’s so young, and you don’t expect him to be such an eloquent orator," she says. "And it’s topical as well."

Mobile App Sales To Top $15 Billion In 2011

By 2014, app downloads will jump to 185 billion.

Crowdsourced "Life in a Day" Captures Thrills, Emotions

The most elaborate crowdsourced arts project in history, YouTube’s surprisingly satisfying, sometimes thrilling Life in a Day draws from a huge pot of source material: 80,000 slice-of-life videos, comprising more than 4,500 hours of video, all shot on July 24, 2010.

Where Are The Techies? Snow Kiting!

Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and techies are obsessed with catching BIG air in emerging sport called, snow kiting, which doesn’t require chair lifts, poles, or groomed snow.

My Blackberry Is Not Working!

As technology changes, the words remain the same….

O’Brien: 11 Predictions for 2011, including Google buys Twitter, Yahoo axes Bartz and Facebook hits the billion mark

Without further adieu, here are my 11 predictions for 2011:

Top 5 overlooked stories of 2010

Here we note five overlooked stories of 2010 – developments that might have received some press coverage but perhaps not as much as they should have, given the impact they could have on various aspects of American life in the years ahead.