The Puget News

A great hour-long interview with Jeff Bezos, mostly centered on the new Amazon Kindle e-book reader but with other interesting tidbits on innovation in general.

The new Iron and Wine video for “Boy with a Coin” is outstanding, featuring Sam Beam playing guitar to a class of flamenco dancers:

The “True Knowledge” demo of a semantic search engine looks quite promising to me. It incorporates user feedback and intelligent parsing of intent to yield search results completely impossible by Google. It’s hard to imagine where a fully adopted version of this technology could go but it would be amazing to use this in combination with Google or Amazon’s efforts to scan books into a giant database. I also wonder what happens with more ambiguous questions than the ones asked. Anyways, exciting nonetheless. Why would true knowledge demo the app prior to launch and give their competitors such a full look at the their user experience? That’s either crazy confidence or terribly naive - we shall see.

Check out the Iron Man trailer. Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow in the new movie about the Marvel Comics character. Looks great!

Look out iPhone, now there’s something even more useful. Imagine being able to touch your data while not blocking it from view on a small screen. This new interface concept allows you to use the fingers that are wrapped around the back of a device as input you can view on the main viewing screen. Just check it out!

The folks at Blimp TV posted this snarky phony commercial for Vista, Make sure to stick with it to the very end!

Sometimes I wish I’d studied to be an engineer. Watch these kids pull off an amazing feat ;^)

Wall animation worth viewing. Let me know what you think. It’s a “poor man’s Plimpton” but one which crosses over into the real world in ways that leave you scratching your head in wonder.

I’m not even sure what movie this is from but it’s pretty nifty in that “Barbarella” kind of way. Might be a bit racy if you work at a bank.

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