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100 years of my childhood neighborhood
Read more: 100 years of my childhood neighborhoodMy neighborhood went through dramatic changes while I grew up. I was 10 miles from Washington, DC. Changes are even more dramatic since I left, about 40 years ago. I went to the US Geological…
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Badgetization
Read more: BadgetizationI was at the Northern Star Council’s annual meeting today. The PR firm that produced the annual report constructed a Scout’s photo entirely of merit badges. They also produced a Facebook app that converts…
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Filling up iPad Storage
Read more: Filling up iPad StorageBiscuit gave me a 64G iPad for Christmas – that was three months ago. Since then I’ve been on a mission to use up at least HALF of the iPad’s storage space. There’s no…
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XKCD Video
Read more: XKCD VideoThis was so cool I had to repost it! I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo. Now, if only Randall Munroe would respond to my emails and let me use a few comics in…
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Blu-Ray will be a niche market
Read more: Blu-Ray will be a niche marketSeveral months ago we bought a Sony BDP-BX2 Blu-ray player. I duly upgraded my Netflix account to send us Blu-ray disks. A couple of months later I switched it back to DVD-only rentals. I…
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Home Videos
Read more: Home VideosCousin Jon sent me a link to David Pogue’s recent column on “Why We Make Home Videos.” Pogue starts by complaining about how consumer video has gone through several recent media transitions, making it…
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Linux and Gnu on “Revolution OS”
Read more: Linux and Gnu on “Revolution OS”There was a documentary produced back in 2002 about free software, open source, Linux, Gnu, Stallman, and Torvalds. A topic ripe with irony. I finally saw the documentary, Revolution OS, on Netflicks. The video…
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