David Lounsbury

Design firm Bu Dot is going to give away free chairs, and track where they go: "Each chair will be equipped with GPS, so as soon as they're claimed the Blu Dot crew can begin tracking their whereabouts. The location of each chair will be shown in real time on a Web site. (It may also be projected on to the wall of the Soho store.) As if that weren't enough documentation, each chair will have its own twitter feed updating its movements." - David Lounsbury from Bookmarklet

"What will our pilots do during those long boring hours while the autopilot is busy flying the aircraft? Without PSPs or iPods and to amuse them, surely they're in danger of falling asleep from boredom--and doesn't that sound more dangerous than a teeny, tiny overshoot? If anything we should demand more gadgets in the cockpit to keep the crew alert, keep them ahead of the technological edge, and keep their fingers nimble and exercised from all that game playing to be ready to push the myriad of little buttons on the flight computers." - David Lounsbury from Bookmarklet

Comcast's FCC filing on how they will do congestion management in the future. Summary is that a user consuming more than 70% of their provisioned speed for a 15 minute period will receive a lower priority for packet routing. - David Lounsbury

"Wireless communication expert Mike Outmesguine has demonstrated an easy way to produce a "Network Relief Kit" - an ultra-portable method of connecting to the internet from almost any location in the world. The entire kit can be carried in a back-pack, and offers a fast enough connection to watch videos on YouTube." - David Lounsbury from Bookmarklet

If you are running an experimental Google Wave server, you can now federate it with the Google Wave Sandbox. (Note this is different than the server used for the public trials.) - David Lounsbury from Bookmarklet

I personally come down on the side of only following people you want to hear from. A social network is good to me only if it has a high signal/noise ratio, and I don't feel a need to have numbers for numbers sake. - David Lounsbury from Bookmarklet

Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. - David Lounsbury

A good and well-illustrated explanation of the failure of the Bay Bridge in October 2009. - David Lounsbury

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