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I spent many years working at a series of startups. One of the common features of many startups is a regular meeting to keep everyone up to date on the state of the company....

A couple of days ago after reading the Boston Globe website for news I decided to take a look at what the BBC had on the homepage of its website. There in the center...

The highlight of Memorial Day weekend around here is the annual softball game. This was the tenth year that Colleen and Phil have held it. Once again, the weather was great and everyone had...

The other cool thing at Google I/O this week was the Android Open Accessory Development Kit. It’s a standard, supported way to write Android apps which talk to an Arduino device. This opens the...

Last year, I mentioned Bill Buxton‘s history of multi-touch UIs. Here’s something else of his you should check out. He’s posted a gallery of his wonderful collection of interesting input devices. It contains a...

Reading all of the awful news about the tragedy in Japan, I learned an engineering fact which surprised me. As you may know, the AC power systems in different countries operate at different frequencies,...

This month’s Technology Review has a nice profile of one of my favorites professors from when I was in college.  Be sure to check out all of the pictures too. Woodie pretty much created...

A number of people have said that the Democrats needed to do more to inform the public about the benefits of last year’s health care reform bill. Well, one of our neighbors has decided...

… is pentalobular. Remember: If you can’t open it, you don’t own it. – Make: Owner’s manifesto