The New Product and Venture Development track is having a reception at the Hotel@MIT (the former University Park Hotel in Cambridge) and I’m blogging this from a new iMac at the reception desk. I’m done. 🙂
Day: May 16, 2002
$50K buys a lot … of free publicity
The MIT $50K competition held its award ceremony last night. Congratulations are in order to my classmate Jeremy Bender and his team, Ancora Pharmaceuticals, who won the grand prize. $50K may not be a lot as far as seed money goes, but it’s a spectacular win for Jeremy and his team. For the record, their team “specializes in the development of complex carbohydrate drugs,” according to the summary posted here.
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New iTunes2Manila v 1.0.2
New version of my iTunes2Manila script out today. This little script, which posts the currently playing track in iTunes to your Manila weblog as a news item, now uses proper typography (curly quotes!) and includes an automatic wrapper for a Google search on the artist name.
Future to do: have a way to update a playlist message automatically, so that “currently playing track” can easily be included in your site template.
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Now playing
Currently playing song: “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway(again)” by Wilco on Summerteeth.
Now playing
Currently playing song: “Kid A” by Radiohead on Kid A.
2600 Fever! Can Breakin’ 3 be far behind?
Slashdot: Atari Announces Official Portable 2600. “Portable” is an exaggeration; the unit has no screen or batteries. It’s just a joystick that plugs into your TV and plays 10 classic Atari games. It’s also an exaggeration to say that Atari is making the thing; they’ve licensed the rights to JAKKS Pacific, a company that have already made a similar product. Press release here; get it before it succumbs to Yahoo bit-rot.
Personally, I would only consider such a monster if it had the entire Atari library in it (considering that each game was only a maximum of 4K in size, that should be feasible) and if the “joystick” were identical to the old Atari 2600 joystick. Super retro kid stuff…
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