Main Dish:

- Wikipedia stacks up pretty well against Encyclopedia Brittanica.

- speaking of Wikipedia, these is this interesting entry on Open Source Funding. I'm not going to offer any opinion on this, just thought I'd link to it.

- Intel is shipping Rosedale, their first 802.16 (WiMax) chip. With a 30 mile radius (which I actually think is a typo, I was under the impression that WiMax has a 30 mile coverage area, meaning a 15 mile radius), look for implementations to probably cover about the same range as cell phones, 5 miles.

- RFID tags for humans a non-starter. I don't see what the big deal is, I'd do it.

- Jeffrey Immelt sounds like one very funny CEO, I would have liked to hear this commencement speech.

- this looks like a blast, much cooler than a Segway. It's a self-powered wheel that can pull you on a sled or inline skates, whatever. Brilliant. via Deep Green Crystals.

- Will Pate asked a bunch of venture bloggers a question about why shareholders should have limited liablity for social and environmental costs of a business. I've been thinking about this for the last week, because quite honestly because I thought the question deserved some serious thought rather than an off-the-cuff answer, and also because it did strike me as a question with an agenda. Tim Oren did provide an extensive response to the question, far more detailed than anything I could have mustered so I'm just going to point to his post.

- an explanation of what the venture term "pro rata" means. Finance terminology is full of Latin for whatever reason and it's unnecessarily complicating. For example, what easier to understand... "pari passu" or "equal share"? By the way, Brad is providing some really nice coverage of venture capital terminology and he's doing it pro bono.

- give your Gmail invites to soldiers, here's how.

- wow, Samsung is making available a cell phone handset with a hard drive in it. Samazing!

Comments

[foobar]

Jeffrey Immelt's speech was hilarious. Thanks for posting that on the blog.