Monday, August 23, 2004

> Peter Winer: About a year ago, I wrote about Power Paper in one of my newsletters. Power Paper provides printable, thin, flexible and envionmentally-friendly batteries. These batteries play a key part in the emergence of active RFID on a wide-scale basis. Yesterday, my daughter came home from back-to-school shopping with a really cool Power Paper product. It's a notebook with a PowerCalc calculator printed on the inside front cover. The calculator is truly paper-thin and the selling price for the notebook was under US$5.00.
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> Craig Newmark: Hey, there are people who're really committed to the small things regarding mideast peace: Hope Flowers is a unique school which was established in 1984 by the late Hussein Issa who had grown up in a Palestinian refugee camp...
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> Rogers Cadenhead: I enjoy watching Pilgrim dive into this stuff, because there's no one on Earth who loves Internet specs more than he does, but I wish he'd abandon the Swift Boat Veterans for Atom approach and spend less time blasting RSS. The simplicity of RSS has been proven by the popularity of the format, which can be bent but rarely broken. There wouldn't be 119,000 RSS feeds and counting if it was as complicated as he makes it out to be...
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> Michael Fraase: I thought it would be more difficult, or maybe more complicated, but it was neither. A transplant surgeon called from the University of Minnesota this morning to tell me they had a cadaver kidney for me (I've been on the transplant list for four-and-a-half years). "I'll pass," I said in a quiet but steady voice. "Call the next person on the list." The physician wanted a reason. "I'm still working out some ethical issues with the whole transplant business." There. It was out before I had a chance to even think about censoring myself...
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