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- Helicopter Dumps Hot Dogs Over Detroit - ABC News
- Design Is Dead. Long Live Design! | Epicenter | Wired.com
- Web Design Manifesto 2012 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
- The Prodigal Son by Spencer Reece : Poetry Magazine
- Pot Prosecution Goes Up in Smoke Due to Warrantless GPS Tracking | Threat Level | Wired.com
- What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed? | VentureBeat
- Tour the updated Google Search iPhone app… with bunnies | VentureBeat
- Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car - Hack a Day
- Google+ wants to be your new Flickr | VentureBeat
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- The Facebook Fallacy - Technology Review
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Grayson
Grayson is a book by long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox about her encounter with a baby whale and her adventure guiding it back to sea. I came to read it because I’ve been taking my nine-year-old daughter on occasional early-morning swims. … Continue reading
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A Chip Is Born: Inside a State-of-the-Art Clean Room
If you wish to compose an e-mail, index a database of web pages, stream a kitten video in 720p or render an explosion at 60 frames per second, you must first build a computer. And to build a computer, you … Continue reading
Posted in Published Work, Wired Tagged Applied Materials, chips, clean room, cleanroom, R&D, semiconductors, technology Comments Off
Journalism in the Age of Online Collaboration
Savvy journalists have adapted (or have been forced to adapt) to a new, more collaborative publishing model online. Here are my notes from a keynote presentation I delivered on this topic at the OCLC Collaboration Forum, held at the Smithsonian, … Continue reading
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October 7, 1954: IBM Gets Transistorized | This Day In Tech | Wired.com
1954: IBM builds the first calculating machine to use solid-state transistors instead of vacuum tubes. IBM already had a business selling calculating machines, and it was humming along quite nicely. The IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch, which IBM introduced in … Continue reading
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.haiku column No. 1 – Haiku Society of America
Thanks to the internet, haiku is making a return to the kind of collaborative, interactive spirit out of which it originally emerged almost four centuries ago. As the editor of tinywords, I’ve seen this kind of evolution emerge spontaneously on … Continue reading
