Quoted: It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.

Suck it Bostonians!

Quoted: The Seattle-Bellevue-Everett metro area has moved ahead of Boston to claim the title as the number two technology region in North America, according to a report released by the Milken Institute this week.

Quoted: Retailing powerhouse Best Buy and Seattle angel investor Geoff Entress have invested $1.6 million in Dashwire, a Seattle company that seamlessly integrates information between mobile devices and the Web.
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"We are cranking on some really cool things," Dashwire CEO Ford Davidson tells TechFlash. The company, which employs 11 full time and contract staffers, also plans to increase hiring as part of the new round.

Quoted: Still, the business [Classmates.com] continues to grow with 15.1 million active accounts and revenue of $57 million during the second quarter.

Unbelievable.

Aw... nasty.

Quoted: Some mad scientist decided to make gummi bears more juicy by using Frankensteiny technology to give them tiny circulatory systems and crunchy little veins, in this weird piece of artwork from Jason Freeny at Moist Productions.

Quoted: Employees at computer, phone and software company Apple have filed a patent to place solar cells on portable devices, Trade the News reported Monday.
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Outfitted with such technology, Apple’s devices, like the iPhone, could have photovoltaic cells stacked underneath LCD touch screens, thus maximizing the area available for harnessing the sun.

Quoted: In a pretty significant move, Reuters is making its news content available to the developer community through the use of a non-commercial API offering, through Reuters Labs. This means that you can now take Reuters news and create applications around it, or better fit the content into your existing applications and sites.

I tried out the NY Times Tech Talk podcast this morning, but I didn't care for it as they resorted to Vista bashing, which is uninspired commentary at best and really just annoying at this point. Unsubscribed.

Quoted: This week on NYT Tech Talk, Bettina Edelstein talks to Times reporter Matthew L. Wald about green technology for jets and J.D. Biersdorfer continues the discussion with cellphone inventor Martin Cooper about the future of wireless communications. Pedro Rafael Rosado joins in a chat about low-cost laptops for kids.

I want to build one of these in the backyard.

Quoted: The Mono-rail Track Velocipede wasn't as flashy as a jet pack, but maybe it was more practical—as long as you had what Scientific American called in May 1900 a "single-rail railway" to use it on, of course.