* Posts by Jon 29

6 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Oct 2009

What's worth more in Startup Land? Popularity or cash?

Jon 29
Boffin

Friends

A large group of friends (read: partners) can help you get the word out, and cash thence. Getting friends is (largely) free, after all.

Jimbo asks online folk to play nice, be civil

Jon 29
Joke

OMG I think I have a solution!

All personal computers are heretoforthwith to be supplied with a cartoon boxing-glove-on-a-spring that can be activated remotely via the interwibble by anyone against whom a slight is made.

OK, so maybe that's a bit harsh. How about the remote InstaCrash hard drive feature that - you guessed it - enables the jilted web user to wreak his revenge on online meanies by zapping their disk!!!!!!!111 C'mon. wouldn't that be great?

Boffins 'write directly to memory' of living brains

Jon 29

Ahh

This explains everything, from the funny lumps on my head to my fear of women ...

NASA tweaks killer asteroid's trajectory of death

Jon 29
Joke

@ Andy Burgess

I don't believe the dinosaurs kept records of celestial obejcts ...

Sony pulls plug on cabled power

Jon 29
Jobs Horns

C'mon, you know you want one

Yes, it's currently wasteful, harmful and probably not very good, but - no more wires! Admit it, we'll all get one when it goes on sale.

World's first button-less, gesture-based remote launched

Jon 29
Happy

Abracadabra!

Needs voice-recognition for extra 'ness.