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The practice, no doubt common, of stacking the un- and partly-read next to the bed doesn’t help. It’s taken a long hard look at myself to be able to say: “you’re not enjoying this book. Move on. Read something else. It’s OK. You’re allowed. You don’t have to finish it.”
links for September 27th
September 27th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for September 27th
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links for September 24th
September 25th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for September 24th
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Since the program began, Americans have given about $80 million. Recent donors include a class of Alabama sixth graders who raised $324.50 by selling cookies… “Three hundred dollars to them is a large amount,” Ms. Gisi said. Even when a math teacher explained how large the debt was — “he showed them all the zeros,” she said — “they didn’t get discouraged.”
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links for September 23rd
September 24th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for September 23rd
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"Whether you review writing apps, blog about writing apps, or simply author angry forum posts about the limited functionality and lack of distraction-free-environment-ness plaguing most writing apps, we think any serious writer will benefit from our gorgeous and minimalistic design choices."
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"the Air Mouse Elite takes a cue from the Nintendo Wii and Sony’s Playstation Move controllers. You hold the mouse up—no wires—and direct the cursor by moving your wrist. Built-in motion sensors do the trick. Either hand works it, and you can leave the tabletop at home." — this sounds a bit horrible. I really like the headline, though.
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links for September 23rd
September 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off on links for September 23rd
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"The Museum of Letters in Berlin is better known to the locals as Buchstabenmuseum. The gallery houses a huge collection of salvaged letters that were once part of large store and factory name signs." — Berlin is a good city to do this in!
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links for September 22nd
September 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off on links for September 22nd
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"How nice would it be if, once foursquare gathered enough data on your travels to establish that you’re falling into a routine, it suggested a point of interest based on the path between your two most-travelled check-ins that required you to take a very slight diversion to experience it." — could this be done via noticings? Routing you to see something new as they're added?
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Historypin, which launched a few months back, places [the history of the Blitz] in their most recent collection. Old pictures are pinned on top of a Google Maps street view so that you can see the destruction of the past and what the street looks like now.
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links for September 21st
September 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on links for September 21st
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Here Machiavelli failed to appreciate an important fact in the evolution of human hierarchies: that with increasing social intelligence, subordinates can form powerful alliances and constrain the actions of those in power. Power increasingly has come to rest on the actions and judgments of other group members.
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links for September 20th
September 20th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for September 20th
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“It fits where the consumers’ heads are today in their time-stressed lives and look, Americans love a silver bullet,” he said. “ ‘All I have to do is walk around and I’ll be more fit?’ Americans love solutions like that.”
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links for September 9th
September 10th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for September 9th
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The idea, judging by this paragraph at any rate, is that we have a moral imperative to develop, say, Autotune so that T-Pain can make records with it.
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links for September 8th
September 9th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for September 8th
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THERE IS A LITTLE PONY IN THE APPLE STORE. A beautiful little pony, with a flowing mane, the likes of which my sister would have killed to get for Christmas when she was 7 or 8. And, NOONE is looking at this thing.
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links for September 8th
September 8th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for September 8th
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I’ve retained more from PowerPoint 97 than I can remember of my degree. Pushing against tight constraints strengthens the creative muscles. Drop me into a sprawling LittleBigPlanet or Kodu and I don’t know what do to with myself. Don’t pander and pamper; constrict and challenge.
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