There are many bottom-up approaches to sizing a market; I discuss the approach I use in my developer’s guide to launching a startup.

It involves using the Google AdWords Keyword Tool to estimate how many X’s are actually looking for your solution to their problem on a monthly basis.

And while this doesn’t give you an idea of the total market size, it does show you how many people you can reach right away if you nail your online marketing.

There is a difference,” she said, “between immediate recall of facts and an ability to recall a gestalt of knowledge. We can’t retrieve the specifics, but to adapt a phrase of William James’s, there is a wraith of memory. The information you get from a book is stored in networks. We have an extraordinary capacity for storage, and much more is there than you realize. It is in some way working on you even though you aren’t thinking about it.

God, I love this stuff: "Another advantage for potential life on Gliese 581g is that its star is “effectively immortal,” Butler said. “Our sun will go 10 billion years before it goes nova, and life here ceases to exist. But M dwarfs live for tens, hundreds of billions of years, many times the current age of the universe. So life has a long time to get a toehold.”

The planet, found by astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is orbiting in the middle of the "habitable zone" of the red dwarf star Gliese 581, which means it could have water on its surface.

Terminitor automates your development workflow by allowing you to script the commands to run in your terminal to begin working on a given project.