Looks like the 'architecture and technology is driving the experience' is still the dominant para-dig-em. And a Senior Scientist is the next to lowest rate? Too bad.

Wages Released

(via Boing Boing)

More at LitLine (via Kottke)

Poetic justice?

• The iDuck
• The Thumb Drive
• The Barbie USB

Anyhoo, I felt inspired to post something today. Not necessarily because of the new year.

Here are a couple highlights from today's blog troll.

• 100 things we didn't know last year (a la Harper's Index, from BBC) [via Kottke]


• The product owners of Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google's e-mail apps sit down for a dinner conversation


• BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow muses about Amazon.com's new author blogs

Full story in the Seattle P-I

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Picked-up in The Nation with additional feel-good quote from W.

On Friday, when even Republican lawmakers were giving the federal government an "F" for its response to the crisis, President Bush heaped praise on embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown. As thousands of victims of the hurricane continued to plead for food, water, shelter, medical care and a way out of the nightmare to which federal neglect had consigned them, Brown cheerily announced that "people are getting the help they need."

Barbara Bush's son put his arm around the addled FEMA functionary and declared, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

• A year ago the US army corps of engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken


• When George W. Bush became president, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely potential disasters - after a terrorist attack on New York City (and we know about his response to that one)


• Since becoming President, Bush has reduced the Army Corps of Engineers budget by 44% (much of that money going to fund the 'war' in Iraq)


• Many, many decisions to ignore science and have conclusive findings his administration did not 'like,' deleted from government reports

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Indeed, largely overlooked last week in the glare of the $4 billion stock announcement was Google's acquisition of Android Inc., a start-up founded by a former Apple hardware designer, Andy Rubin. The move did not go unnoticed, however, by Silicon Valley cognoscenti.

Mr. Rubin, who also worked for General Magic when it was in its start-up phase, went on to be a co-founder of Danger Inc., maker of the Sidekick smart phone, a combination cellphone and personal organizer that is sold by T-Mobile. Mr. Rubin is being joined by Andy Hertzfeld, another Apple and General Magic veteran. General Magic developed a handheld device in the 1990's.

The Sidekick was an early favorite of both Mr. Page and Mr. Brin, who wore the units on their belts as all-purpose voice and data communicators several years ago.

A Google-branded smart phone has long been a pet project of Mr. Page, and earlier this year Google invested $2 million in a project by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the M.I.T. Media Laboratory, to develop a $100 wireless laptop. The smart-phone idea, which the company has not talked about publicly, would be a way to extend Google's reach and give it a more extensive connection with its users by offering Google on a multipurpose mobile device.

(When Leary himself was convicted many years later, prison officials unwittingly gave him the standard "Leary Test." Leary was able to give answers which showed him to be a low flight risk, and that got him into a minimum security facility. He soon escaped.)

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