Archives / December, 2008

A Year in Review (in 40 seconds)

Rather than doing a year-in-review in words, I’ll just provide this very cool time-lapse video by Eirik Solheim that shows a year passing on a fixed landscape in 40 seconds. Incredibly cool. (Tip of the hat to Gizmodo for this one). A two minute version and HD versions of both are available too, as are…

A Warm Plasma Cloak

Today it is bitterly cold in Boulder, currently registering -4 degrees Fahrenheit. I returned to Hoth this afternoon from the relative warmth of San Francisco, after attending last night’s excellent Topspin holiday party. As I was catching up on my Slashdot feed, it came to my attention that scientists have discovered a sixth region of…

Topspin’s Seeking a VP Engineering

Foundry Group portfolio company Topspin Media is looking for a VP Engineering. If you’ve got great engineering management chops, a passion for music and an interest in building enterprise-grade web apps to enable music artists to run and build their business online, take a look at the job description posted today on Topspin’s blog. The…

Beer: My Favorite Product of Biotechnology

I cannot deny it – I love beer. My “gateway beer” that taught me there was a whole universe outside of mass-produced beer was Pete’s Wicked Ale, introduced to me when I arrived in the Bay Area to attend Stanford in 1989. Then, during my junior year, I spent six months in 1992 living in…

10 Megapixels at $2.20/pixel

When I was in Pennsylvania two weeks ago for Thanksgiving with Katherine’s extended family, we took a trip in to Philadelphia to see the new Comcast corporate headquarters building, recently opened, and a new downtown landmark (chock full of green design and LEED goodness). The coolest part of the new Comcast building is the giant,…