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Epiphanies and Einstein

John Moberg — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:35:39 +0000

“Creativity is the residue of time wasted.” (Albert Einstein) All too true, ever reach that point of exhaustion (I give up, you’re mind wanders…) and the insight hits you like a train?!? Yeah, me too… Just when you worry you’re having the least productive day, bam, eureka! The really interesting part comes when a researcher studying you tells you a full 8 seconds before you have the insight, that it’s coming based off neural oscillations (alpha waves) in your brain. Now that’s mind-blowing in my opinion. What an exciting time to be alive!

NikeFuture not so bright on Facebook

John Moberg — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:12:06 +0000

At Lick’s Unlimited – Classic!

John Moberg — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:50:51 +0000

iPad 3 arrived this first thing this morning!

John Moberg — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:55:40 +0000

Beautiful screen, unfortunately that’s all I know – didn’t get 2 minutes during the day to look at it.

The New iPad Review: Faster, Sharper and Thicker | Walt Mossberg

John Moberg — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:13:21 +0000

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Impressive specs on v3 including a million more pixels than HDTV!

Hawaii Still No. 1 in Wellbeing, West Virginia Stuck in Last

John Moberg — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:29:57 +0000

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Note that Minnesota is #3 !!! I’m sooo happy about that. Seriously.

Fast Company: High-End Pinterest Competitor The Fancy Launches Commerce Platform With Help From Jack Dorsey

John Moberg — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:01:42 +0000

High-End Pinterest Competitor The Fancy Launches Commerce Platform With Help From Jack Dorsey

With just 250,000 users, high-end Pinterest competitor The Fancy may not seem like much competition at all to Pinterest, which boasts more than 10 mil…

Source: http://goo.gl/mag/dtGDa

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Neuroskeptic: Visualizing The Connected Brain

John Moberg — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:19:49 +0000

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Flying People Spotted Over New York City…Film At Nine | TechCrunch

John Moberg — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:35:15 +0000

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Very creative use of technology, click the link to see a video clip… worth the 2 minutes.

That’s a Wrap: Microsoft 2012 CES Keynote Recap – The Official Microsoft Blog – News and Perspectives from Microsoft – Site Home – TechNet Blogs

John Moberg — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:17:20 +0000

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The last year of Microsoft @ CES. Waited in line for over an hour and still didn’t get in! Ironic, had to reboot and redirect to figure out a work-around.