John Sculley On Steve Jobs

The Cult of Mac has a great interview by Leander Kahney with John Sculley. Sculley talks about about running Apple, and about Steve Jobs.

"Here’s a full transcript of the interview with John Sculley on the subject of Steve Jobs.

It’s long but worth reading because there are some awesome insights into how Jobs does things.

It’s also one of the frankest CEO interviews you’ll ever read. Sculley talks openly about Jobs and Apple, admits it was a mistake to hire him to run the company and that he knows little about computers. It’s rare for anyone, never mind a big-time CEO, to make such frank assessment of their career in public."

2D Barcode Patch

P8TCH is a cool site that allows you to take 2D barcode, and make an actual fabric patch for your bookbag, etc, which points to a url.

"Think of it as a short URL you wear. Each 2x4-inch, velcro-backed p8tch has a Mysterious Commando Design on the top, and a QRCode on the bottom ....Each p8tch comes with a secret passkey that lets you set the redirect target of the URL as often as you like. So it really is like a TinyURL, except one that you can control."

Also note ZXing, where you can encode your name/address into a 2D barcode

Hack a Day has a note on "How to put your logo in a QR code"

and NPR (on 09.26.11) points out that "Few Consumers are cracking the QR Code"... except for well off, middle age, white men....

Courtney Love on Record Labels

Salon.com back in 2000 posted an article by Cortney Love about the recording industry. (good read)

"Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software.

I'm talking about major label recording contracts"

Locals and Tourists (flickr)

Eric Fisher has an interesting idea: Analise all the geotagged photos in flickr, and map where the locals vs. tourists take pictures.

"Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).

Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).

Yellow points are pictures where it can't be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven't taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all."

Clayton Boyer Gears & Clocks

I first stumbled across Clayton Boyer's youtube entries on odd shaped gears. But when I checked out his website, he has some fantastic wooden clocks (showing the gears), and some great sculptures.

great places to live

American Planning Association has an interesting writeup on the great neighborhoods in America for 2010. Their great places section not only talks about what they like, but why they think "X" is important.

how related am I to my dog?

TimeTree.org is a cool...

public knowledge-base for information on the evolutionary timescale of life. A search utility allows exploration of the thousands of divergence times among organisms in the published literature.

So if you want to see how many years ago humans and dogs were the same, you can simply search this from the website.

See intro video:

100 Cats + IKEA = ?

What do you get when you stick 100 cats in an IKEA store?

A clever publicity stunt!

Right vs. Left

In an 10/2009 posting, the informationisbeautiful website (a website you should spend a *LOT* of time browsing around) presented an interesting diagram of the differences between the American political system.

Raytheon XOS 2 exoskeleton

In a UPI article about the Raytheon XOS2, the authors want to compare it to Ironman, but I see more parallels to the "Aliens Powerloader".