Gadget Links: Connecting the Dots Edition
- Analysis of Porsche corporate profitability on 37Signals SVN: Small number of product lines, stable designs, premium niche.
- Custom lettering available on the back of your Porsche on Popgadget: $450 gets you up to 5 custom letters applied in place of the model name. ($65 for each additional letter.) Is this an example of why Porsche is so profitable?
- Tour de Georgia Expanding to Seven Days on Daily Peloton: May not be the U.S. equivalent of the Tour de France, but is looking more like Paris-Nice in terms of length.
- Georgia city priced out of 2007 Tour de Georgia on TDGblog.com: "...organizers told him they would have to come up with $25,000 to $30,000 to keep the race in Dahlonega. 'That's gone up from 7-8 thousand the first year.'" In spite of that 12 to 18 cities want in for this year.
- CNN Hosts Poo Poo the Zune on Seattle P-I: Miles O'Brien says, "Why don't they get some decent design people to make things look better?" Short term indicator of Zune's success or lack thereof?
- ClearWire wireless broadband lights up Seattle with 1.5 Megabit service on Seattle P-I: $42 per month. Maybe a good alternative to cable and DSL if you live there.
- Study: aerobics fights brain shrinkage: A small study suggests that aerobic exercise can help reverse brain shrinkage that begins around age 40. Another good reason for me to keep riding my bike.
