January 2008
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What's going on in Gaza?
The Middle East is a politically tumultuous region approximately East and South of the Mediterranean Sea and around the Persian Gulf. It is a region important to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as all three religions have their origins there.
Last week, the Gaza-Egypt blockade was breached and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed across the border into Egypt to stock up on supplies...
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Tesla Roadster
Tesla Motors is a Silicon-valley startup that is producing a fully-electric, plug-in sports car. The car’s performance is impressive as expected for an electric going 0-60 in four seconds and has a range of over 200 miles. The price is too- $98,000 with most of it going to the 6,831 computer laptop type lithium-ion batteries. Tesla was started by two engineers, Martin Eberhard and Marc...
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The iPhone's interface design
Elegant, easy-to-use interfaces are important to Apple…so Apple geeks tend to spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about how we interact with computers (and what might make it a tad better).
A couple of links you may have already seen via Slashdot or other places:
Edward Tufte, an expert in information design, has a short essay titled
“Interface design and the...
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MacBook Air vs. The Apple Brand
Marketing works. Researchers at CalTech recently completed a study that showed that $90 wine tastes better than the same wine at $10. Not only did subjects rate them better, but MRI scans showed that the exact same wine produced higher brain activity in pleasure centers when subjects are told they are more expensive. The reasonable explanation is that perceived value can positively affect our...