Tag: technology
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When Steve Jobs isn’t happy, he really isn’t happy
When Steve Jobs isn’t happy, he really isn’t happy | Technically Incorrect – CNET News. This article uses the word “reportedly” far too many times (twice in the excerpt below, alone). Considering it’s not really even a real article, just an amusing anecdote from another article with some bland commentary, it makes me seriously…
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MLK
I’m not the type of person who likes to commemorate or memorialize the occasion of a day like Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. For the most part, my observation of any holiday is whether I choose to take the day off and (at least since my son’s been in school) influenced by whether G has…
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vision of the future
I just finished reading Nicholas Carr‘s The Big Switch in anticipation of getting a copy of his new book The Shallows. This troubling excerpt towards the end of the book hints at where he takes The Shallows and gives a less-than-utopian view of our dependency on all things web-related: The printed page, the dominant information medium of the…
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Free Desktop Wallpaper: Forecast
Okay I admit it. I have been reading too many steampunk novels recently because this is what spilled out of my subconcious when I sat down to create a new wallpaper. Clockwork, ancient tomes filled with long lost technology, a mixture of organic a…
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technology so cheap, it’s disposable
the other day i tweeted about a recent acquisition. i found a computer lying in the street in the universal, “take this, it’s free” position. i had little doubt that was actually the intent because the moisture underneath the pc case told me it had probably been out overnight. i took it home figuring it looked…