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• The Zen Table Practices Mindfulness So You Don’t Have To
  Remember those little Zen rock gardens they used to sell for desks? So you could take a minute of your busy day to contemplate the void? Thanks to the magic of Kickstarter, you can build your own automatic, desktop-based Zen garden that will rake itself into endless patterns. […]
• Ansca Mobile Accuses Partner PapayaMobile Of Copying Its Code
  Ansca Mobile, the Palo Alto-based mobile development company and makers of the popular Corona SDK, is accusing its partner PapayaMobile of ripping off parts of its SDK  for use in PapayaMobile's Social Game Engine. According to Ansca Mobile COO David Rangel, his company recently discovered that Papaya's engine is what he calls a "blatant copy […]
• Some Refurbished Xooms Could Put Personal Data In The Wrong Hands
  Maybe it was too thick, maybe it was too heavy, maybe you just didn’t like Honeycomb. Regardless of your reasoning, you may want to keep your eyes peeled on your credit score if you bought and returned a Motorola Xoom between March and October 2011, because your personal information may be in someone else’s hands. […]
• Tumblr Now Lets You Highlight Your Favorite Posts For A Dollar
  Tumblr is introducing a new feature today that lets its users pay a dollar in order to have their post featured on the Tumblr Dashboard. The option is called "Highlights," and it's now available right from the new post page on Tumblr. With Highlights, you can choose a special icon that will appear next to the post along with an optional messag […]
• The Wheel: What Is The Foxconn Debate Really About?
  Thirty spokes meet at a nave; Because of the hole we may use the wheel. Clay is moulded into a vessel; Because of the hollow we may use the cup. Walls are built around a hearth; Because of the doors we may use the house. Thus tools come from what exists, But use from what does not. - Tao De Ching There's a carousel in a small Cape Cod town that we visit […]
• Peter Thiel Invests (Again) In Xero’s $16.6M Round
  Online accounting software maker Xero has raised a new $16.6 million round of funding from existing investors — including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, whose most famous investment, Facebook, just filed for an IPO, […]
• Keen On… Dane Jasper: Why High Speed Broadband Is The Key To US Innovation (TCTV)
  There are few more articulate supporters of high speed broadband access than Sonic.net CEO Dane Jasper. Not only does he think Americans should have the right to high quality broadband, but he also thinks that it is the key to innovation in the broader economy. Home video is, of course, increasingly dependent on broadband and so, Japser told me when he came […]
• The Founders of Warby Parker Talk Wire Frames – And The Hipster Question
  Earlier this week during the Crunchies we snagged the founders of Warby Parker for a backstage interview — which was fitting, as I've been wearing a pair of their specs myself (they seemed pleased by this). Tune in to the video above for some details on the company's 'Buy A Pair, Give A Pair' program, through which Warby Parker matches ev […]
• Shazam, Delivery Agent Let You Buy Super Bowl Gear While Watching The Big Game
  The Super Bowl is just around the corner, but unfortunately most of us won't be able to attend the big game. Parties are fun and all, but there's nothing like leaving the stadium with arms full of jerseys, footballs, foam fingers and the like. How else are you supposed to relive the excitement over and over without mementos? (In a non-serial killer […]
• Making Learning Fun For Kids, Everything Butt Art Launches Its First iPad App
  You know what's funny? If you Google "how do you get kids to learn" (sans quotes, even), the first result goes to this TechCrunch blog post about an app that lets kids draw butts on the iPad. Really! The post details the company called Madbrook (aka Everything Butt Art), which launched at TechCrunch Disrupt NY in May. It's the brand behin […]