Akkam’s Razor

• IBM Press room - 2008-11-25 IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years - United States - The Next Five in Five is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s Labs around the world that can make these innovations possible.

These are my links for August 12th through August 13th:

• Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos - Words - particularly from books - as bodyart.
• The Washington Monthly: The Burbs - Matt points us today to a discussion on the Freakonomics blog about the future of suburbia in the face of increasing gasoline prices. The consensus view is fairly grim, but it reminds me of a few random points about urban land use that have been on my mind for a while. There's no big overarching point here, and nothing especially original, just a few thoughts that don't seem to get much attention in blogospheric discussions of the burbs.

The mobile version of Digg, diggriver, should should forward links via skweezer or Google Mobile.

It appears Apple stockholders were as unhappy with the Airbook as I am. A $1,300-2,000 notebook looks silly in a market dominated by sub-$1k Windows PCs and sub-$400 solid state subnotebooks (for example, the ASUS EEE PC). I’d have preferred a Mac-flavored version of one of those.

I haven’t written about Detroit’s North American International Autoshow. Some of the concepts that look to be winners to come this evening (Friday).

The New York International Auto Show (which humbles the Philadelphia show, and is easily the equal of Chicago or Los Angeles, and is only eclipsed by Detroit) starts this week.  You can find more NYIAS coverage at Autoblog and Jalopnik.