Saturday, June 15, 2002

Biomimicry: Using Animals as Factories Got Silk.. Insert a single spider gene into a female goat. Milk regularly. [New York Times: Technology] 10:13:57 PM     Comments

Wolfram's continuum-less time: What's So New in a Newfangled Science?. Interesting ideas rarely spring up in isolation. [New York Times: Technology] 10:07:10 PM     Comments

Another missed opportunity: 'The Perfect Store': The Rise (and Rise) of eBay. Adam Cohen has written a brisk, workmanlike history of the company that has become the one unambiguous success story to come out of the dot-com boom. [New York Times: Technology] 9:51:54 PM     Comments

Hunger and how to end it [Economist: Opinion] 9:40:19 PM     Comments

This is a company I would love to work for: How Google Searches Itself. Mayer, an intense, fast-talking product manager, scribbles rapidly as the engineers race to explain and defend the new ideas that they've posted to an internal Web site. By the end of the hour-long meeting, six, seven, or sometimes even eight new ideas are fleshed out enough to take to the next level of development. [Tomalak's Realm] 9:31:03 PM     Comments