Clinton Stark

Do you remember the uber sailboat, the Maltese Falcon, Tom Perkins was building a few years back? A refresher: cost $150M,  length 289 ft. (the longest until a Russian billionaire crushed the record with a 557 ft. "boat"), staff 20. Not to mention all the amenities: gyms, home theaters, VIP...

Audi's "unintentional acceleration" fiasco of the 1980s might have looked very different if Twitter and Facebook were around. Could the PR nightmare been avoided 140-characters at a time? AudiGermany @Audi5000driversuingus @60minutes fyi the gas pedal is on the right, brake on left. u shld read manual 2. thx! ;-) #damagecontrol #cuckoo Engaging...

'Tommy', the infamous rock opera by Pete Townshend of The Who, is legendary stuff. Many a childhood was forever changed thanks to that record. It became the soundtrack of a generation; a teenage wasteland. The musical is based on the 1969 double album which tells a loose story about a...

Michael Arrington, founder of a network of technology blogs including TechCrunch, published an interesting piece yesterday on new media business models and a hypothetical example based on the New York Times (What If: The New New York Times). If anyone has any clue on where new media is headed, Arrington...

My how times have changed. A lot of so-called  therapy today (not that I would know!) is based on spa-like treatment administered under the guise of "wellness." Patients are pampered and can tweet and Facebook to their narcissistic-heart's content. But there was a day, at least according to writer Ken...

We just received a Lenovo IdeaPad U350 from Lenovo. This is a 13.3" laptop with almost netbook-like proportions (but not quite). Thin and light, it tips the scales at about 3.5lbs.

St. Francis in Sonoma produces some of my favorite wines (Cabs and Chards). At 330,000 cases per year, they are a large operation, yet they've still been able to maintain the craftsman quality often found only in the boutiques. For me, Zins are hit and miss. Most of the time...

If I've learned one thing in my years it's not to bet against Apple. Ever (well, except when Gil Amelio is running the company). But still, sometimes I wonder what has taken Apple so long to introduce a netbook. The gap is screamingly large in their current product line-up. The smallest...

It ships with XP, but even Windows 7 ran smoothly, and scored an index of 2.2, which is on par with other Atom-based netbooks.