Heat sensitive coffee mug that changes as temp of contents change. White with black “Hot” script when it’s hot, to black with white “Cold” script when cold. In between it’s part white and part black with both scripts kind of showing. very cool.

Media General, parent company of Winston-Salem Journal, announced that the payroll slashing it started last year will continue through October and ultimately lead to over 800 jobs cut. Wall Street loved it.

What happens when bioethics and politics are mixed with religion. HT to Ed Cone for the link to the article.

Cards showing how to tie knots. Great for people like me who didn’t pick this up in Cub Scouts.

Lex points to some interesting info re. malpractice lawsuits.

Conservative Christian group says Starbucks’ new logo might as well say “Slutbucks”. Oy.

Wedding photog working when Chinese earthquake hit. Puts other wedding “disasters” in perspective.

Charles Black is McCain’s ‘man in Washington’ and his record of lobbying going as far back as the mid-80s looks like a problem for the candidate. Clients included Savimbi, Marcos and Seko. Once again, not surprising. Makes Obama’s loud mouth preacher p

Todd Davis, the dude who gave out his SSN to promote his company’s fraud protection service, LifeLock, is being sued because it failed some folks and their lawyer claims Davis knew it would fail because it had even failed him.

Some small airports have lost commercial service entirely. I really hope the whole “air taxi” thing takes off in the near future.

Levitt supports some economists’ claims that gap between rich and poor has been exaggerated because it only looks at income, not at buying power. Lots of interesting discussion in the comments.

Ed draws an interesting connection between municipal broadband in small towns today and rural electrification in the last century.

The Blackwater web of influence. No surprises.

I’m constantly in search of decent watch bands that don’t crack or break. On the other hand they need to be able to get wet and it looks like this one fits the bill.

Wi-Fi SC memory card. You can configure it to upload pictures via a wi-fi hotspot, so no need to connect to computer. Downside is that it doesn’t work with just any old hotspot; you have to configure it for specifice wi-fi connections.

Ways to make money with your video.

Oh what I could do with this. Wireless video camera on a remote controlled plane. So cool.

Holy crap, George Will has written a column that didn’t require me to consult a dictionary even once AND had me nodding in agreement (mostly).

Fred Wilson posts some excerpts from the annual Churchill Club Dinner. Point that caught my attention: mobile phones are the future “PC”. Already in Europe they account for 8% of credit card transactions.

Ken Sawka writes about companies’ tendency to focus too much on internal info and not enough on external.

Site dedicated to business strategy that features podcasts.

Money art. College kid doodles on US money and posts pictures on flickr.  Kind of cool.  In fact cool enough that over 500,000 people have viewed them.

Parental hell.  Toddler that not only doesn’t nap, but doesn’t sleep at night either.  The kid has a condition that prevents sleep so he’s never slept in his three years of life, and yet the parents persevere.  Wow.

Kevin Phillips has penned a book about the fudging of economic numbers by the powers that be.  Scary stuff.

Good point made about knowledge management/sharing applications.  They are only as good as the users who use them.  Most people in companies are not good about sharing info, so it takes a strong manager to make sure it gets done right.