David McCrory has developed the concept of data gravity . It dictates that data has its own mass

Happy Saturday, readers! Unless your boss is making you work this weekend , you’ve got two days of freedom ahead of you.

I’ve been putting off writing about the Telikin because, arguably, any PC is suitable the older audience that the Telikin is aimed. I set my Dad up with a Linux machine and then a Mac Mini and he’s been surfing Drudge and listening to Polka like a champ for almost a decade now.

Editor’s Note : Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur and product designer who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan . Admittedly, I have a negative bias towards overhyped startups

As we were wandering through the Atlanta meet-up last week we stumbled upon a charming young man wearing a glove studded with circuit boards and embroidered with what looked like silver thread.

And RIM’s rough ride continues. Within the past few weeks, the Canadian company has had to announce all sorts of bad news , and now RIM has been dealt an expensive defeat in court to add that list. Bloomberg reported late yesterday that RIM must now shell out nearly $150 million in order to settle a patent suit with a New Jersey-based mobile device management company called Mformation .

Facebook has acquired the team behind Spool , the mobile content-caching startup that launched in September 2011 at TechCrunch Disrupt. At that time, my colleague Sarah Perez snappily described its service as “Instapaper on steroids.” This looks like a pure talent acquisition — it doesn’t appear that any of the technology Spool built will be integrated into Facebook, and the company has already shut down its service. Spool raised a $1 million round of venture capital this past January from a group including SVAngel, Felicis Ventures, Yuri Milner’s Start Fund and YouTube founder Steve Chen

Gillmor Gang: Tablet Stakes The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — played Minority Report The Home Version as Google entered the Tablet Wars.

What can be said about the save icon? It is a diskette. It is often blue

“ Center For Digital Archaeology ,” said the banner above one of the startups at the Funders and Founders Life 3.0 demo show, and for a moment I got excited, thinking of Vernor Vinge ‘s software archaeologists . It wasn’t quite that. Instead, Codifi was a “solution for turning cultural heritage datasets and rich media into web- and mobile-ready interactive experiences.” Which is cool, and worthwhile, but more a niche market than a world-shaker.