Willie Northway

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2/8 '10 why Microsoft doesn't define the future - interesting
"What happened? Unlike other companies, Microsoft never developed a true system for innovation. Some of my former colleagues argue that it actually developed a system to thwart innovation. Despite having one of the largest and best corporate laboratories in the world, and the luxury of not one but three chief technology officers, the company routinely manages to frustrate the efforts of its visionary thinkers."

2/2 '10 Why Republicans should really be angry - politics
...and it's not because of taxes, but health care costs.

1/28 '10 Geek behaviors during conversations - interesting
"Summary:
This article presents some common behaviors I've observed from my past few years of interactions with geeks, nerds, and other highly-smart technical people. For brevity, I will simply use the term "geek" throughout this article as a catch-all term for such people. I don't mean to pass any value judgments on people who exhibit such behaviors; these are simply my observations and personal theories for why these behaviors occur."

1/19 '10 CreateSpace: sell your own media - interesting
I knew something like this would come along - it's like cafepress, but for books, music CDs, and video DVDs. You upload the digital file, and Amazon creates the product to-order, so there's no inventory costs.

1/14 '10 never fight a land war in Asia - politics
"Citing sources in the defense contracting and intelligence consulting community, the iDefense report unambiguously declares that the Chinese government was, in fact, behind the effort."

1/14 '10 Augmented reality helps mechanics - 37337 h4x0rz
ARMAR, or Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Repair, is a head mounted display unit that provides graphic overlays to assist you in making repairs. An Android phone provides an interface to control the graphics you view during the process.

Which reminds me of the augmented reality iphone apps to help with wayfinding in large cities

I expect to see more cool apps like this to come.

1/12 '10 When video games become reality - 37337 h4x0rz
Awesome - a quadricopter which has a camera and is controlled by your iPhone/iTouch. Now this is a cool toy.