Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Celebrity Patents
Someone's collected a list of Celebrity Patents. Most seem pretty lame and bizarre, particularly compared to Heddy Lamar's invention of frequency hopping for secret radio transmissions. This was ahead of it's time and not implemented until the 60s when the patent expired, but it was the basis for spread-spectrum technology used in modern cell phones and wifi devices.
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