Joe Bonner

Career advice from Seth Godin: now is the time to follow your passion and do work that matters. - Joe Bonner

Nice roundup of this week's coverage of gene therapy news stories by Paul Raeburn. - Joe Bonner

"Launch day of a new cool gadget is the closest thing to being a kid again on Christmas day (or whatever your winter solstice holiday of choice). You’ve anticipated the day. You’ve called in sick to work. And you are standing out in the freezing cold at 7 in the morning, hoping your place in line assures you a device before the carefully-planned sell out occurs. You’ve worked yourself into…a Fever Pitch" - Joe Bonner from Bookmarklet

wow, Arrington: "...in my humble opinion, the Droid is the coolest mobile phone to exist to date." - Mitchell McKenna

"Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," shuts himself in the bathroom and perches on the edge of the tub with his notebook when he's tackling a knotty passage. Hilary Mantel, whose Tudor drama "Wolf Hall" claimed this year's Man Booker Prize, jumps in the shower when she gets stuck. "The number of pages I've got that are water marked, I can't tell you," Ms. Mantel said." - Joe Bonner from Bookmarklet

:) The facilitator had to come up with something quick when the participant's reaction to his own video was "I don't remember saying any of that." - dontgetcaught

"Toiling over data from cell phones and putting that together with graphics and maps, Justin Ogden blends his backgrounds in electrical engineering and Civil Air Patrol search-and-rescue missions to pinpoint locations of missing people and missing aircrafts. Ogden, 28, has been called a pioneer in cell phone forensics. The Civil Air Patrol captain from Arizona says that's because he has more practice and hands-on experience in using data to aid searches than most people in the field." - Joe Bonner from Bookmarklet

"With this week's release of Verizon Wireless' Droid phone comes the first real test of the potential for fragmentation with Android. The Droid will be the first phone to run Android 2.0. After it goes on sale Friday, there will be Android phones on the market running three different versions of the operating system." - Joe Bonner from Bookmarklet

"But operators and hardware manufacturers selling Android phones are coy about whether their devices will be upgraded to the new OS. If some phones continue to run old versions, issues could arise with application compatibility across the different OS versions." - Joe Bonner

"The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood is history. At least, so think two groups of residents who are planning museums to capture memories of the 1960s hippie movement before they fade with its aging participants." - Joe Bonner from Bookmarklet

"Odds are California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger meant to deliver more than one message in a recent veto to the state Legislature, mathematicians say. In the body of the message accompanying the veto, consisting of a four-line paragraph and a three-line paragraph, Mr. Schwarzenegger lamented that he was sent an "unnecessary" measure while "major issues are overlooked" in the cash-strapped state. But as the San Francisco Bay Guardian noted last week, the first letter of each of the seven lines spells out a profane rebuke that starts with "F" and ends with "you."" - Joe Bonner from Bookmarklet

"If, when the Beatles released the remastered versions of their albums in September, you withstood the pressure to purchase the stereo and mono boxed sets that contained their entire catalogs, your patience is about to be rewarded, sort of. Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music said that they were releasing a limited edition USB drive that contains the stereo versions of the Beatles’ albums, as well as the bonus materials that were included in their re-release, including short documentary films about the creation of the studio albums, photos and expanded liner notes. For the tech heads, the companies said that the audio files on the 16-gigabyte drives were in FLAC 44.1 Khz 24 bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats, and compatible with PC and Mac. For the people holding the credit cards, they said the drives would be sold at the Beatles’ online store for $279.99 and would be released in North America on Dec. 8. The USB drive’s design is presumably intended to evoke the Apple Corps. logo, and not the rotten fruit tossed by the villainous Apple Bonkers in “Yellow Submarine.”" - Joe Bonner from Bookmarklet