Green Violet

11 interesting gadgets

A “Lethal Weapon” espresso machine? It gets odder from there.

24: the unaired 1994 pilot episode

This is to precious to miss. Please watch.

Learning from (Stephen) King and (Joss) Whedon : can you hear the creaking of a shift?

Joss Whedon is now in the new media entertainment space. Stephen King is, too. If we snag Steven Spielberg, I reckon a great many eyes will open, a great many hands will slap against foreheads, and we’ll see some much-needed mainstream movement towards using the ‘Net as a viable platform to deliver original content to audiences.

Pandora on the verge of collapse

Why is this happening? Last year, web radio giants were hit with outrageously ridiculous fees by a federal panel for every song that would be played on their stations. This caused a lot of services to either shutdown, or go through what Pandora has been experiencing for the past year.

Random.org

RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs.

10 Likely events in 2008

Posted in January, would be interesting to read in December. (Business Week)

The Web Time Forgot

And you thought you knew the history of the internet. (NY Times)