Awesome (semi-related) movie suggestion Nivi.

I was actually lucky enough to be at the Primer premier -- say that three times fast -- at the Lake Placid Film Festival in upstate New York before they won at Sundance. The whole Cloudspace crew used to head to Lake Placid for the event each year while we were working on the event's website. We even lost an amazing graphic designer there one year who started dating a semi-pro snow boarder he met at Lake Placid. Anyway...

Good times. Great movie.

Couldn't agree more Brad. I picked up the original release (listing Leinad Zeraus as the author) last year. One of my favorite books EVER!

I learned about the book from a talk the author gave at The Long Now Foundation. I highly recommend taking a look at his talk as well:

http://fora.tv/2008/08/08/Daniel_Suarez_Daemon_Bo...

I liked it so much that I wish a publisher hadn't purchased the rights to Damon and its sequel; since the second book in the series is already written and should be out now. As far as I know, there is no word on a new release date yet.

Hey Josh... Thanks for the MyBlogLog mention! We still give you a lot of love whenever the MyBlogLog story is told -- even if you didn't put in money.

As for the name, I'll +1 "Bootstrapped."

Man you are two for two tonight. I can't believe you could pull all those pieces together so cleanly. Thanks for including the shout out to my post.

I'm glad to see you already heard the news that Phish was back on tour. I read that offline a few days ago and had been meaning to ping you about it. Very cool.

Congrats Tyler! That is just too cool.

However, I did buy a DVD a few weeks ago to learn Contact Juggling. (Which is awesome!) Much better than just seeing the people do their thing on YouTube -- at least for a beginner.

Great post Ian. (I know, I say that a lot.) The MyBlogLog guys really did hit Topics out of the park. While I may be a bit biased, I am completely addicted to the new feature.

To be honest, reading this post made me a little sad. This was your baby. I wish you could have announced the launch of a project you worked so hard on via the official MyBlogLog blog. Maybe we will get you in as a guest blogger sometime soon. I am sure that the MyBlogLog audience would love to hear how Nokia and your new immersion in the social-mobile space are impacting your view of the world.

Great stuff (as always) Ian. This post came back to me today after reading a New York Times Blog piece about new flexible displays from HP that might make ultra-portable electronic newspapers possible:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/extra-th...

I would love to get my hands on one of these.

The Nokia widget platform looks pretty interesting. But I was more wondering if people will hesitate getting a phone that runs "widgets" instead of full "apps" -- since an application based option is already available and gaining market share quickly.

That said, a dashboard app that aggregates a single-screen of widget views for all the other installed apps would rock.

Interesting connection with your previous post about the N97. How do you think this applies to widgets on the N97 vs. apps on the iPhone?

Very cool (if illegal) idea. Gives me an idea to discuss at breakfast tomorrow... ;)