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 Multithread city over here, I have been courting investors, coding, team-building, and assembling a sales plan all at once. And I need help, so I've also been making Minions =)
Biggest news the last couple of days has been heartbleed, the webserver bug (in OpenSSL) which is so bad it has it's own name (and logo). Server admins all over the world are scrambling to apply patches, and users everywhere are changing passwords. Crap. So, does this refute Linus's Law? (That with many eyes, all bugs are shallow.) Nope. 
 Think Visual Search is flying under the radar? No such luck. Facebook's face identification project is accurate 97.25% of the time. That's amazing. And Twitter adds photo tagging. It isn't automatic - yet - but imagine how cool when it will be. Won't be long, check this out: Impala lands on Android to herd more cat pictures. And there are applications like this: transparent Land Rover hood. Onward!
Seth Godin: Not even one note. "We opt for more instead of better. Better is better than more."
 I've been remiss in my cycling commentary, which for some of you is just fine and others a travesty. We're in the middle of the "classics" season, and next Sunday is the most classic classic, Paris-Roubaix, featuring a head-to-head battle between Fabian Cancellara and Tom Boonen. In the last ten years Boonen has won four times, Cancellara three, including last year. My money's on the Swiss time machine; he looked pretty amazing winning the Tour of Flanders last weekend... (That's him leading Boonen in the Ronde.)
 So, Microsoft have announced Office for the iPad, or rather, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Early reviews have been uniformly positive and the products are already very popular though some pundits seem to feel this is only for business customers. No, it is nothing less that a grand repositioning of the company away from desktop toward mobile; a great move, IMNSHO. Good for Satya Nadella: Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft's CEO?
Meanwhile, Microsoft's OS Chief Terry Myerson does not get it, per this interview with Mary Jo Foley. "How the Windows experience spans these form factors and is familiar across them - that's what we need to deliver if we're going to delight people in the whole ecosystem." That's old school thinking; I predict he will be gone soon...
 Meanwhile, Amazon launches FireTV, their answer to AppleTV, Roku, and Chromecast. Coolest differentiator is the voice-controlled remote, which apparently actually works. That would be cool.
Oh, and they also launched Dash, which is a combination barcode scanner and voice recorder to help you order from Amazon Fresh. Quite interesting. I could see this making a difference in convenience...
 So, we still haven't found Malaysia Flight 370 :( despite an incredible effort. At this point the most likely scenario all along seems the only scenario; the plane had trouble and crashed into the ocean. The Washington Post created this illustration of how difficult it's going to be to find it. It's not going to be easy to find the black box at the bottom of the ocean, as this illustration shows.
esr: Zero Marginal Thinking (Jeremy Rifkin gets it all wrong). A thorough fisking. Whew!
 Do you want to be a Glasshole, too? On April 15 - for one day only (tax day!) - Google will sell one to anyone. A mere $1,500 and you too can take pictures by winking. Go for it!
And finally: how to flirt, according to science. A big key is maintaining eye contact. So Glass is great for flirting :)
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