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Last-Minute Geeky Christmas Gifts

Posted on December 21st by .
Is it too late for holiday shopping? Not at all. If you act fast, you can still get some cool gifts for the geeks on your list. Some are available online ...

Supreme Court Considers Kindle v. iPad

Posted on December 13th by .
Newly-approved Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is a Kindle user, while longtime conservative Justice Antonin Scalia wields an iPad.This nugget of information appeared in a recent video clip on C-SPAN. Both justices ...
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Boxee Box Is an Endless Stream of Disappointment

Posted on December 8th by .
Every day, 3.2 gajigabytes of streaming video are delivered straight to the screens of slackers like you and me, sitting at our desks at work and gawping at classic outtakes from ...
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How BlackBerry Could Benefit From a Swedish Redesign

Posted on December 2nd by .
Research in Motion announced this morning that it acquired Swedish interface design firm TAT, whose initials stand for The Astonishing Tribe.RIM clearly plans to use the Swedes' talent to beef up ...
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Beyond the blog.

Posted on November 30th by .
Gawker founder Nick Denton is one of the most aggressive and successful blog publishers around.He started with a good gut understanding of what works online, and built a federation of blogs ...

Woodrat Podcast 21: In which I talk about poetry and technology

Posted on November 24th by .
Poet and publisher Dave Bonta spoke to me on the phone awhile back for his "Woodrat" podcast. He got me to talk about everything from how I handle submissions to tinywords, ...
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Petite Android Seeks Partner for Adventure, Beer

Posted on November 24th by .
While other phones are going large, Motorola is taking things in a different direction: small and tough.The new Motorola Defy is a compact Android phone that wisely eschews the gigantism of ...
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What We Wish Apple Would Do With iTunes

Posted on November 15th by .
Apple is planning an announcement Tuesday morning regarding iTunes.Count us among the cautiously optimistic. ITunes is one of the most successful software packages in history, installed on more than 125 million ...
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Nov. 2, 1815: Boole Born, Boolean Logic Logically Follows

Posted on November 2nd by .
1815: English mathematician George Boole, who would help establish what is now known as Boolean logic, is born.Boole’s breakthrough was the insight that logic, which had previously been considered a branch ...