I love Foursquare, an online game that allows you to ‘check in’ to venues from your phone, earning you points for a variety of achievements at each check in. Its a great iPhone app for seeing what your friends are up to and casual competition against friends [...]
Limitations, originally uploaded by frank-c. I’m working on making this jump…
Harvard Economics professor Greg Mankiw announced today that his publisher has put together a “blog map” which outlines relevant content on his blog and maps it to parts of his widely-used Economics textbooks. As far as I know, this is one of the first effective instances of [...]
Today was Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft. That simple statement of fact is really pretty incredible. I realize that they are very different in what they did, but I cannot help but think of this as being similar to when Washington left the White House. One [...]
All the world is abuzz with the news of Apple releasing the iPhone 3G on July 11th. (Which, I may note is inconveniently before my July 15th payday) and apparently the fervor over the product in Australia has reached such monumental levels that the folks over News.com.au [...]