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A Native American chef in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN is currently working to open just such a restaurant [1]. I've read a little about his menu and it does sound quite different from…

The ACLU has apps that will send video to their servers/cloud. It doesn't appear that the video is streamed or uploaded until the users stops recording. https://www.aclu.org/featur…

Here's a nice example of a regional success story from MN. The area around Winona (a town on the Mississippi river between the Twin Cities and Rochester) has a growing cluster of b…

Boeing has a new assembly site in South Carolina opened in 2011. This is especially ironic (and painful) for Kansas since Boeing had been a major employer in the Wichita area for d…

I interpret the article to be referring to parents of young children (e.g. identifying parent listeners via kid/nursery music). These parents may well be curating their non-kid mus…

All of the stories in Bacigalupi's _The_Windup_Girl_ universe contain sub-plots about the 'Calorie Cartels' based in Iowa. Really good reading for a near-apocalyptic vision of a po…

I don't think you can over-emphasize the challenges in communication with off-shore teams. I have worked with several in corporate IT and just reaching a minimal baseline of unders…

The reliability problems and limited speed is a big concern. Do you know if CNS runs the network itself or if it out-sources the technical operation? As far as the cable service go…

Your point is well-made. Language is very important on religious websites. My church used an online directory from a commercial provider which had fairly obvious opinions about the…

Your demo page is slick. I was able to parse and inspect a couple files I had laying around locally. Toggling the header and typing options worked great.

Interesting side note: Here's a link to an Amazon review of _Dark Pools_. The review claims the name Brad Katsuyama and opens the review with "As an insider in the world of electro…

Which suggests that take-home #0 should be: Don't build a pile of crap in-house framework. Sniffing that out before too late is the tricky part...

Think "Market Capitalization" not "top" or "limit"

One key factor for business adoption of new technology is the availability of technologists with skills. If I can't find (many) developers and administrators who can install and ma…

Since Malaria was a specific example, this headline caught my eye yesterday: Web guru targets malaria with social network site http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080420/tc_nm/britain_mal…