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Motorola and Burton Snowboards unveiled today their $600 Bluetooth-enabled Audex Jacket Series.

My other blog, Online Dating Insider, was mentioned in PR Week.

Visualcomplexity is a gallery of hundreds of visualization projects. There are some fascinating projects here.

This is awesome, a toilet with one-way glass.

Interesting story in the NY Times about kikikomori, teens (usually in Japan), who shut themselves in their rooms for years at a time.

Many moons ago I worked with a company who was a precursor to HyperWords. Basically, you select text on a web page and right-click to see a contextual menu with all sorts of useful options. Search, buy, dictionary, etc. Problem is, at least in Firefox, when I select text, the menu comes up automatically. This is bad. And why is the copy option 1/2 down the list instead of the top?

They have a ways to go, especially with rearranging the menu items and choosing which items go in the menu, but are off to a good start.

NASA’s Stardust sample return mission returned safely to Earth when the capsule carrying cometary and interstellar particles successfully touched down at 5:10 a.m. Eastern time (3:10 a.m. Mountain time) in the desert salt flats of the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range. Learn more at NASA.

top ten blogger lies from gapingvoid.

Bruce Sterling is holding court over at the Well. I absolutely love hearing what he has to say about the world, from China and India to Turkish hip hop to Sars and on and on. Amazing stuff.

This is a classic, from TUAW.

The best question of the evening was asked by a kid probably no older than 10. He asked why did Apple release a pro Mac (sorry, the Macbook Pro) when the pro apps aren’t ready, and many people need those to work properly. The way he said it, and what he asked was impressive for someone so young. Everyone in the audience was sort of looking at each other like, wow, who is this kid? Someone yelled from the balcony, “what’s your podcast URL?” The kid replied, “oh, I’m not doing one any more.” Leo about fell back in his chair. The kid elaborated, saying now he helped one of his friends get one started. Patrick mentioned that’s where the money is. Good to see there are some smart young folks out there in San Francisco… We were all very impressed with the kid who was so advanced that podcasting was old school to him, before puberty even.