Definitely unconventional…

I have a lifelong difficulty with falling asleep at night and then — even more problematic — staying asleep. I don’t have a medical cause for insomnia or any sleep disorders, just a brain that likes to go into overdrive when my body finally has a chance to lie down and rest.

11 Unconventional Sleep Tips: How to Get to Sleep and Stay Asleep

I guess we should all turn those phones off in hospitals…

Using mobile phones near hospital beds or important equipment is dangerous and could switch off ventilators or disrupt pacemakers, Dutch researchers said on Thursday.

Mobile phone use in hospitals poses danger: study

At what point are you just eating ground-up beans?

The Lindt Excellence line of fine chocolate bars is widely available in the United States. Dark chocolate versions with 85% cocoa can be found with relative ease at chains as plebeian as Target. Such ubiquity is not shared by the 99% bar. For it, one must travel to a Lindt chocolate store. One exists in the Mall of America.

Chocolate Zen

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

This is a great video about what Inventables does…

(Full disclosure, I’m on their advisory board. 😉 )

Companies pay big bucks to develop new products and Inventables, Inc. helps those companies do just that.

Creating the next hot gadget

Anyone heard of this term – “Real Estate Cars”?

So what is the Porsche Cayenne? It is what my husband so deftly labeled, a Real Estate Car.

Real Estate Cars

So in response to Paul Froutan’s Blog Post about this issue, you won’t believe what I ran into at the local D&B here in Houston…

W00t! Eudora is back!

Eudora, the email client that introduced many in the earlier days of the internet to email, officially died May 1, although not that many people noticed. Qualcomm decided to open source the Eudora code and the good folks at Mozilla have resurrected the once great desktop email client.

Mozilla Revives Eudora…You Remember Eudora, Don’t You?

Check it out, its a real-life Warthog!

Warthhog fun – Watch more free videos

More local press…

Hush Labs founder and technology evangelist, Richard Yoo, has been named chairman of a Houston initiative to make technology more accessible.

Richard Yoo named chair of AIR Houston

Yes, yes… it just keeps coming..

Just when you thought that Richard Yoo couldn’t get any more coverage here in Houston (see here, here, & here), he shows up again. This time Richard has been named as the 2007 Chair for AIR Houston. Also on the board are Erica O’Grady of The Method Agency and Kelsey Ruger of PopLabs.

AIR Houston hosts Non-Profit Web-Raising Event, adds Richard Yoo to board

This has got to be my favorite post from Cringely this year…

This week’s iPhone pricing story, in which Apple punished its most loyal users by dropping the price of an 8-gig iPhone from $599 to $399 less than three months after the product’s introduction, is classic Steve Jobs. It wasn’t an accident.

The Puppet Master: Love Steve Jobs or hate him, just don’t ignore him.