What Kicker Was Doing the Week Ending 2009-02-15

• Rands: “The first three big design decisions you make are vastly more important than the second three.” http://icanhaz.com/randsontwitter #
• If you haven’t seen it yet: Amazon announces Kindle 2 (Electric Boogaloo) http://tinyurl.com/ateyak #
• Still can’t figure out why a reading device needs a dedicated (or at least visible) keyboard all the time. #kindle2 #
• Does this new LG touchscreen phone look familiar? http://tinyurl.com/cgo6y9 #
• The Importance of the Blinking Light in hardware: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov08/6926 #
• Looking forward to @mikekuniavsky’s upcoming book Smart Things: http://tinyurl.com/avcvu2 #
• We’d love to get our hands on some Siftables http://tinyurl.com/39xn66 #
• We’re really puzzled by someone singing opera on the street near our building. #
• Sony Releases New Stupid Piece of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work: http://tinyurl.com/acm52y #
• Google Powermeter “will receive information from utility smart meters and energy management devices”: http://www.google.org/powermeter #
• The Human Factors of Imaginary Objects: http://tinyurl.com/bsw8ra #
• Bruce Sterling’s Imaginary Gadgets Project “a catalog of the weirdest things imaginable”: http://tinyurl.com/clqqvw #
• LEDs, OLPC, and Low-Cost, Low-Power Computing: http://tinyurl.com/bqqrdd #
• Android moving to tablets: http://tinyurl.com/dakuxb #
• Harnessing the power of…hamsters? http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22103/ #
• What The Font now an iPhone app. Awesome. http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/iPhone/ #
• Human senses as metaphors for RFID: http://tinyurl.com/d95hgg #
• UNITX: Delivery system via robots. http://sites.google.com/site/artmarcovici/unitx #
• Twitter as a Platform: http://tinyurl.com/bz3569 #
• Five companies building the Internet of Things: http://tinyurl.com/c73vf8 #
• Google’s first real threat? Twitter. http://tinyurl.com/c98wrs #
• CamSpace Brings Wii-Like Interactivity To Flash Gaming http://twurl.nl/8koqlx #
• Do we need a new internet? http://tinyurl.com/cdgwv4 #

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