Author Archives: Thomas Guy

Santa Monica Content Provider Goes Public

Demand Media, an internet how-to and general information provider with headquarters in Santa Monica, went public Wednesday to the tune of some $1.5 billion. The more time goes by, the more companies I was salivating over working at last year turn out to look pretty crummy. In 2010 they invited me to interview for theContinue reading “Santa Monica Content Provider Goes Public”

China State TV News Uses Top Gun Footage to Fake Fighter Jet Story

This is the best story I’ve heard all year. A net user who went by the name Liu Yi pointed out that the jet that the J-10 “hit” is an F-5, a US fighter jet. In Top Gun, what the leading actor Tom Cruise pilots an F-14 to bring down is exactly an F-5. LookingContinue reading “China State TV News Uses Top Gun Footage to Fake Fighter Jet Story”

Sprint CDMA Rev. A in Santa Monica

If you don’t look at the latency (“ping”) this could be an old school ADSL on copper – pretty cool. I hope to soon go back to the intersection of Fedora and Olympic (in my previous tests the strongest WiMAX signal between downtown Los Angeles and the beach) to see how the signal is withContinue reading “Sprint CDMA Rev. A in Santa Monica”

Yellowstone Magma Pocket Swells

Sometimes you hope you’re wrong. The simmering volcano has produced major eruptions—each a thousand times more powerful than Mount St. Helens’s 1980 eruption—three times in the past 2.1 million years. Yellowstone’s caldera, which covers a 25- by 37-mile (40- by 60-kilometer) swath of Wyoming, is an ancient crater formed after the last big blast, someContinue reading “Yellowstone Magma Pocket Swells”