Too Late To Be First

First to Sell Limited Unlimited Email

But wait, there's more! You'll want to HURRY because this Less Limited Unlimited Offer is for a LIMITED Time, Only!

Yep, Yahoo gets the honors yet again. Now, with Yahoo New Mail Plus, you can go from Free Unlimited Limited Email to PLUS Unlimited Less Limited Email for just $19.99/year! Brilliant! What's the incentive? Well, the SPAM CANNON we have pointed at your limited unlimited head, for one.

Free Unlimited Webmail

Yep, that would be Yahoo! TOO LATE, shpoogle.

Making Operating Systems Utterly Irrelevant

This list of 30+ Resources to Get Things Done is only the tip of the iceberg. The missing ingredient is universal access to massive symmetric bandwidth. Ultimately, it isn't an operating system that will win, but bandwidth that will obviate the desktop. Another case in point: YouTube on the iPhone. Who cares about the OS when all your interaction is inside the context of a browser?

Prove Tesla Right

Sure, it's a different method than Tesla imagined, but Wireless Power Lighting a Bulb 7 Feet Away is Wireless Power Lighting a Bulb 7 Feet Away, right?

1GB MP3&4 Audio Video in Watch Form Factor

Can anyone explain to me WHY -- in the name of all thing extropic -- WHY is this STILL not a phone, as well? This is no longer rocket science, boys and girls. The absence of an affordable Dick Tracy wrist-phone with Bluetooth voice-dial interface is merely a matter of a missed perception of market size for the device. There is less than ZERO reason to have number keys on phones, these days. It requires merely a handful of bits for a cheap chip to be trained to recognize my intonation of the letters zero through nine; and yet, we still insist on 19th century input methods on our 21st century communicators. Go figure.

Build a Better Velcro

Engadget:

While others would likely suggest otherwise, [66-year old inventor Leonard Duffy] doesn't seem willing to budge on the name, insisting that "it's slidingly engaging... it's the slidingly engaging fastener."

Winner of a Popular Science invention award, SEF is able to support eight times the weight of velcro and is COMPLETELY SILENT. BTW, when you invent something better than SEF, you get to call it whatever you want; until then, STFU with even the slightest name critiques, deal? Oh yeah, and just be sure to remember that all old people have nothing to offer because they've lost all their creativity, initiative, focus, and ambition when you pay $200 for that first pair of arrogant punk-ass SEF shoes, right?

Yes, it's a rare cross-post, so relax already.

Bring IRC to Web 2.0; This time, 100% traceable

Yep, Twitter and a Ton of Twitter Tips and Tools have done it. A total free-for-all, IRC-style, complete with private messaging using the @username syntax. Obviously, I'm not implying that this is anything close to IRC, but for the new crop of net-chillens out there, it may keep them from ever discovering IRC; which, of course, THE MAN would simply love, right? I guess if you can't intimidate IRC out of existence, might as well try to distract and detract it into irrelevant oblivion; which shouldn't be too hard to do for anyone easily hypnotized by the likes of complementing mashups like TwitterVision and FlickrVision.

HyperLink 2.5e -- Document Viewer and Web Browser for the C64/128

An oldie but a goodie for Mother's Day on TLTBF. The 2003 edition of HyperLink 2.5e -- Document Viewer and Web Browser for the C64/128. All these years later and you STILL rant about how it was "your idea" first. Yeah, well, that's how much ideas are worth, my friend. It's all about execution or lack thereof.