Entries from December 2007

December 31, 2007

Place to Drop Off the Kids

What if there were a convenient place where parents could drop off their kids while they’re in a store — grocery store, wal-mart, at the mall, etc. — where the kids are:

entertained
supervised (with background checks for employees)
safe
exposed to educational tools

I’m imagining a place where kids younger than 5 can play with semi-educational toys, kids from [...]

December 29, 2007

A Thought Experiment: Think Like Benazir Bhutto

The whole assassination situation in Pakistan is really sad and as I thought about it I tried to think like Bhutto and play it out. What would I think about in the months before the assassination if I were her?
My thought on this is that she knew she was going to get killed. In fact, [...]

December 28, 2007

Backing up my (online) self – Online Data Backup – the reverse of what you’d think

This is not about a service that allow you to backup your harddrive online. I want the ability to take my online self, my online “files” and online “harddrive” so to speak, and download it as a backup on to my own harddrive.
Someone should build a lightweight desktop application into which I can put my [...]

December 26, 2007

Marvel MMORPG

Marvel should license their brand and all of their superheroes to a video-game company or hire a good video game company to create a massively mult-play online role playing game. World of Warcraft is huge these days and to get into that world you have to learn all of this backstory and character types and [...]

December 26, 2007

Inverse Social Network

In thinking about what I really want out of a social network (that is not currently available), I really want the inverse of what a typical social network currently is.
The State of Today’s Social Networks
Roughly speaking, today’s social networks are all about allowing an individual to share information with the rest of the world (pictures, [...]

December 25, 2007

A high quality news program on the Internet

Someone should put together a good comprehensive summary of the news and post it on YouTube. The problem with network news is that they have to fill it with feel good stuff, celebrity junk, and have commercials that take up 30% of the on-air time.
You could even exploit the long tail and do some fancy [...]

December 24, 2007

Ron Paul Doesn’t Believe in Evolution!?!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz94-OrnXzE
“It’s a theory, the theory of evolution. And I don’t accept it as a theory.”
Wow. Can all of these people really want to vote for someone who doesn’t believe in evolution?
What blows my mind is that the guy sounds so smart. I’ve heard him taken on Ben Bernake on technical economic theory, and he has [...]

December 17, 2007

One of the few true journalists

Tim Russert is one of the few true journalists left. If you haven’t seen Meet the Press lately, check it out. He goes all out on every candidate that sits down at the table and brings up every topic directly that most journalists are too scared to ask about.
In his interview with Romney (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/10005061#10005061) he [...]

December 16, 2007

One Pan Meals

Someone should create a cookbook full of delicious meals that you can make quickly and using only one pan. Cleaning pots and pans is the worst waste of time. I want to dump some stuff into a pan, have it cook, and have me be able to eat it quickly and easily. Maybe even 2 [...]