TechCrunch had a few words to say about the pro-Prop8 Google ads some sites are seeing. Funnily enough the same ad is showing on the TechCrunch article. p.s. Prop8 is a mistake. Support our rainbow brothers and sisters.

Early days yet but Tomy xiao is a digital camera with a Zink inkless printer built-in. Polaroid 2.0.

Dead simple python based “webserver” hack (thanks Jason): alias webserver='python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()"'

The Indo is “semantically tagging” all its content so that they can “proactively ‘propose’ relevant content to readers.” I hope, but doubt, this means a publicly available web-service that anyone can build off of. The NYTimes is doing a lot of web-service work and it just may pay off.

Ballmer’s arrogance is either his way of playing the game or he really means the things he says in which case he is blinding himself. He thought the iPhone was a joke when it came out. Now he thinks Android is not a threat. It is. Windows Mobile needs drastic improvements just to become competitive with the Android and iPhone experiences. A good mobile Windows OS would do very, very well with the vast desktop Windows base.

365 Days of Astronomy will publish a 5-10 minute podcast about astronomy for every day in 2009. Sounds like a great way to get into astronomy.

Think your car/house keys are secure? Nope. These guys can photograph them from a distance and recreate them.