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TG it’s F: A happy end of the week to everyone, especially those who remember Space Patrol, the 1950s TV show chronicling the 30th-century adventures of Commander Buzz Corry and his faithful sidekick Cadet Happy as they battled galactic bad guys who, interestingly, all had German or Russian accents. An experimental 3D episode – a television first – aired on this day in 1953. Zuzfinally: Zuznow, a Start-Up NY import from Israel whose software can turn your web…

It’s Monday again: Happy start o’ the week everybody and welcome new readers Peggy, Jean, two more Roberts and a Syd. Great to have you aboard. Enjoy the weather – the Island got three inches of snow on this day in 1875. Apple should kick in: The FBI said it paid $1.3 million to crack into the San Bernadino terrorist’s iPhone, where it found nothing of significance. Here’s something, maybe: Purdue has teamed up with…

TG it’s F: Happy Friday everybody. It’s the 46th running of Earth Day, the largest secular observation on the planet. The Yankees added pinstripes to their uniforms on this day in 1915. Frampton’s 66, Nicholson’s 79 and you don’t even want to ask about Bettie Page. Bathroom’s down the hall: Home-sharing service Airbnb announced it has nearly 1,400 hosts on Long Island, with rooms averaging $254 per night and a typical stay of 3.6 nights. Water Mill hosts…

It’s Monday out there: A great start to the week everybody and welcome new readers Lorene, John, Bud, Howard and Chris, plus Larry at his new address. It’s tax day unless you live in Massachusetts and Maine. Also: Nabisco introduced Barnum’s Animals crackers on this day in 1902. The circus wagon packaging was added in time for Christmas that year, with an attached string so boxes could be hung from the tree. The 22-biscuit box…

TG it’s Friday: A happy April 15, everybody. Long Island’s own Franklin National issued the first bank credit card on this date in 1951. Seth Rogan is 34; Leonardo Da Vinci would be 564. The contest: Giving inspirational names to economic development efforts is apparently all the rage. You’ve heard of the Buffalo Billion, of course, but what about Southern Tier Soaring, Finger Lakes Forward and Central New York Rising? State officials say they don’t require any…

It’s Monday again: A great start to the week everybody and welcome new readers, including Molly, Roxanne, Kathy, Art, Lee and Carolyn. It’s April 11. The Apple-1 computer was released on this date in 1976, with production funded from the sale of Jobs’ VW bus ($1,500) and Wozniak’s HP-65 calculator ($500). Interestingly, a vintage HP-65 still pulls $495 on eBay. Mark Teixeira is 36 today. He’s batting .278. Sorry, mate: A Patent Office board has rejected challenges to Cold Spring…

TG it’s F: The Venus de Milo was discovered on this day in 1820 by a Greek peasant named Yorgo Kentrotas. Not clear what he did with the arms. Julian Lennon, inspiration for Hey Jude and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, is 53. Meeting demand: Cablevision has started offering Hulu to cable TV customers through their set-top boxes – the first time the Internet-video service is available directly through a pay-TV platform as a dedicated channel. $7.99 per month via channel 605. Bob on…

Monday, Monday: A great start to the week everybody and welcome new readers, including JoAnna, Matt, Steven, Julie, Sharon, Michele, Leonard, Kate, Chaz and Bob. It’s National Chicken Cordon Bleu Day. Do what you must. And happy birthday Steve Davies. The road to the final $100K Innovators from Long Island’s top colleges and universities go head-to-head on Thursday in the regional round of the New York State Business Plan Competition. With $30,000 in prizes and a…

TG it’s F: A good Friday to everyone and welcome new readers. It’s All Fools’ Day, the celebration of which dates back so far no one is really sure how it came to be. The first recorded prank comes from The Canterbury Tales (1392), in which Chaucer refers to April 1 as March 32. (Middle English humor just slays me.) Veeco Instruments is reportedly in talks to acquire its main German competitor, Aixtron SE. ULC Robotics of Hauppauge has…

It would be Monday: An unseasonable start of the week to everybody and welcome new readers, including William, Toni, Glenn, J.T., Matthew and Shigeto. Great to have you aboard. Computer scientist Scott Elliott Fahlman, inventor of the smiley emoticon, was born on this day in 1948. “Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends,” he said in unveiling the mark on a message board at Carnegie Mellon…

TG it’s Friday: Hope you haven’t put the snow blower up on blocks. Bennett Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s is 65 today. Ben suffers from anosmia, the loss of smell and, as a result, taste. His work-around was putting ever-larger chunks of stuff in the ice cream. Chunkiest? Gotta be The Tonight Dough (starring Jimmy Fallon), sales of which benefit the Serious Fun Children’s Network. A mighty initiative: The feds have designated an 81,000-acre area…

It’s Pi Day: A happy 3.14 everyone and hope you’re enjoying all that extra daylight. It’s the start of a week of heavy economic data, led by February retail sales and inflation reports. The biggie comes Wednesday, when the Fed decides on interest rates. Oh, and welcome new readers Lisa, Michal, Robert, Kent, Sydney and Lawrence. And Wells Fargo Private Bank, our newest sponsor. Glad to have you all aboard. Adam Haber and Billy Crystal share…

TG it’s F: A great Friday, everybody. It’s March 11, on which one year ago Innovate LI posted its first story, a scoop on former Forest Labs star Charles Ryan being named general counsel at CSHL. Thanks for sticking with us. Going fast: LISTnet has filled a third of the space at its new Digital Ballpark coworking space in Plainview. Ouch: The Senate passed a bill renaming the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara County as…

Happy Monday everybody and welcome new readers, including Mike, Laurie, Matthew, Jeffrey, Kevin, Jules, Elaine and Stefanie. Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email and the first to send one in 1971, died from a heart attack on Saturday. He was 74. Tomlinson also pioneered use of the @ symbol to separate a user from its host. As he liked to say, “It’s the only preposition on the keyboard.” It’s over: Stony Brook University political science professor…

TG it’s F: A happy Friday everybody. It’s March 4, the first day of business for the first U.S. Congress of 1789. Much like today, not much happened. It took another month for enough members to arrive in NYC to form a quorum. Advocacy by association: The LIA released its top 10 priorities for 2016 this week, headlined by a research corridor that would stretch from Yaphank to Uniondale and fold in the mixed-use Nassau and Ronkonkoma…