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Yes, but you wouldn't have to use tilt scrolling in those conditions. Tilt-scrolling would be disabled by default. When the conditions were appropriate, you could opt to enable it …

I'm always glad to see developments in energy monitoring, but every time I see a tool that monitors a home's power meter it just leaves me wanting to see more. It seems that what w…

Yeah for sure. I've noticed this technique before in some great comedians - for example Andy Kaufman and Will Ferrell. In fact - that was what really got me about Kaufman's bits - …

So true. The bane of every creative thinker is the crack of the precious idea. To keep my thinking loose, I keep a blog where I purge all my ideas both great and stupid in order to…

I agree that the title is misleading. But I think his view is really important. Or maybe better said, it's really important that a great man like Penrose comes out and unequivocall…

I too developed really bad wrist pain - mine was from too much autocad and solidworks. My secrets were to: 1. Use a good chair and keyboard tray. always. 2. train my left hand to m…

This is very cool thank you. I posted earlier today about the need for a better rating system than the five star system. I'm really glad to see you working on a great solution. Tha…

akamaka, I can understand how my blog might come across as self-important - I know I can be over the top, but that's part of the idea (see the tag line of my blog). The thing is, I…

I like this idea a lot. I also think that once you have some tags, you could extrapolate which movies are likely to fall into those tag categories by seeing which movies people bro…

Twitter is the “Atari Pong” of real-time messaging services? I remember how exciting it was back in February when I started realizing what it meant to have a real-time messaging pr…

That's true, but their entire model is still built on a database built up of 5-discrete-value ratings. True, it does seem that they place an emphasis on reviewers' similar tastes, …

The funny thing about the 5 star rating system is that it's completely the wrong model for many situations in which it's used. It originated from sites like slashdot where, because…