Derek Scruggs

One of the cool things to see at South by Southwest is all the DIY podcasters interviewing people out in the halls. The one and only Chris Pirillo surprised me by sticking a microphone in my face and the result is here.
Cross-posted from Enthusiast Group

I’m not sure exactly what needs to be said, but I think it’s important that this story be passed around: The Biggest Wish of Asia’s Tallest Woman.
More pictures here and another here.
Via Shanghaist

Scott Adams has been blogging for a month or so and it’s generally brilliant. A representative sample:

I should note that I’m a vegetarian, but only for selfish reasons. Saving critters from pain is an excellent goal if it’s practical. But I can’t reconcile that goal with what would happen if humans stopped killing animals. The […]

Someone just pointed me to a very cool demo of what looks like the future of touchscreen interaction. Make sure you watch the video.
Since refining the FTIR (frustrated total internal reflection) sensing technique, we’ve been experimenting with a wide variety of application scenarios and interaction modalities that utilize multi-touch input information. These go far beyond […]

South by Southwest rocked. I met a ton of interesting, creative people and came away with a lot of ideas. I definitely will be there next year and may even propose an idea for a panel.
Hands down, the best session I saw was How to Create Passionate Users, which was mostly presented by Kathy Sierra. […]

One lesson I learned early in my entrepreneurial adventures is the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. And I’m fine with that. I am generally a cheerleader for capitalism, free markets, risk taking, and the failures that often accompany them. But capitalism is not perfect, and one of the things that […]

This is disturbing:
Today, out of curiousity, I wanted to find out the average of a first child in the United States.I typed in www.google.com, entered the search term “average of first child united states,” and guess what the first search result I got was?
“Family Planning in China: Though its cultivated land is less […]

Even though I’m on the Naturally Boulder Task Force, I must admit that I adore instant mashed potatoes.

Next weekend I’m going to my first South by Southwest Interactive and I’m pretty psyched. I’ve heard nothing but good things about it and have been impressed with the steady stream of announcements and community blog postings about all the cool things there will be to do.
Last night I read about this neat contest designed […]

So I’m reading this article about how melting ice in Antarctica is raising the sea levels. Pretty scary stuff, but I got distracted from fretting about global warming when I read how they measure it:

The study, published in the journal Science, results from a new way of investigating Antarctica’s ice sheet by measuring changes in […]