Monthly Archives: September 2010

The new twitter

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 14, 2010

Okay… now it gets good. * * * UPDATE: Liz Gannes posts some details at GigaOm.

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OMG BBQ

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 10, 2010

I’m going to Orlando to blog the AARP convention, Orlando@50+ What an honor! I’m one of three people who were selected to blog the event. AARP will pick up my travel expenses, supply me with press credentials and a Flip camera, et voila! Le country boy becomes, for the weekend of September 30 through October [...]

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iCandy

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 9, 2010

The kitchen table is covered with iTrash. We’re recharging the proprietary batteries. No grab and stash common batteries fit this gear. You can skip the pharmacy or the hardware store or the supermarket or the airport kiosk if you need a new battery. Rather, when the battery dies, you either buy the next generation of [...]

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Bristlecone pine

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 9, 2010

Doug Lucchetti shared the following anecdote in the comments following a TED talk given by Rachel Sussman: The discovery in the 60s of the extreme age of some Bristlecones, ones that express strip growth as an adaptation to harsh cold dry conditions and grow specifically in otherwise inhospitable environments, is one of the most fascinating [...]

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Shilling for uggs

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 7, 2010

I received an email from some Brit suggesting that if I’d plug his ugg style “Whooga” boots, he would perhaps give me an extremely modest sum for the favor. Works for me because I’m a big fan of ugg style boots anyway. No conflict of interest! I especially like them on women with long legs, [...]

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What’s not to love

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 5, 2010

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. –Albert Einstein The summer I was twelve years old was an idyll that seemed to stretch on forever. I remember bicycles and blue gills, sand and sunburn, row-boats, comic books, an old army blanket on the front lawn; and, when things got [...]

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