Cloudy Thinking

Watch this video of Izaak Sawyer doing a CRAZY somersault bike trick.

A friend writes: In an already ADD-fueled world, Twitter is everything I don’t need right now. My signal-to-noise ratio is already way, way too low.

John Naughton writes about a study by British Library and researchers at University College London that postulates that young people have adopted new forms of reading on the web.

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Dan Bricklin has pre-released an early version of Sweet SocialCalc, a Javascript spreadsheet for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) platform. He’s sharing all the code, so there’s plenty to study. [via Twitter, DanB]

Stanford Technology Ventures Program has podcasts by Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders. Some big names participate in this useful resource.

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrates Microsft Photosynth and Seadragon. I can’t describe it, you have to watch the video. Awesome stuff. [via David Rothman, TeleRead]

Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes in Fortune about Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi’s pursuit of the 4 million iPhones Steve Jobs claimed to have sold as of Jan. 15, the date of his Macworld keynote speech.

Rick Moen maintains a definitive guide to SSH clients and related matters.

If you’re following the ongoing auction by the FCC of the 700 MHz spectrum, Om Malik presents useful background on 700 MHz technical tradeoffs.

Matt Vella writes about the “download” gaming market, including Passage.

Aaron Rutkoff writes about Passage a game developed by Jason Roher. [via Kottke]

Rod Meade Sperry shares a picture of a Thai Ronald McDonald sent to him by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff). [via Susan Piver]