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Dinner in Macau

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Save your inbox with this Google calendar hack

Ever notice how much time you can spend emailing back and forth when trying to setup a meeting?...

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Paint It Black

Gil Scott-Heron

Small Talk at 125th and Lenox

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Gil Scott-Heron—“Paint It Black” [Spoken Word]

Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (Flying Dutchman 1970).

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Funkadelic - I Got A Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody’s Got a Thing

So good, the intense desperation of the song always got it.

Sounds unlike...

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Lazy Bones

Witch

Lazy Bones!!

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Witch - Lazy Bones

Well, damn.

A little funky psych-awesomeness straight out of 1975 Zambia. This right here is my jam, kids.

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Boston is going to rise in the technology world again, and serve as a key nexus for the next big technology wave: hardware startups. California is well–suited to software and silicon, but Massachusetts has hardware nailed.

“Boston’s Next Huge Technology Wave: Robotics” by Rob Coneybeer

MIT’s Media Lab is indeed an amazing place. Whether Boston’s tech ecosystem evolves into the future nexus of hardware startups remains to be seen. That being said, I do agree with Rob that robotics is becoming a much more interesting field again and some intriguing activities are taking place in Boston.

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