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Zebra pens.
It seems to be a law of ballpoint pens that the best ones inevitably disappear, leaving behind only inferior writing implements. Thus I have managed, over the past year, to lose three Fisher Space Pens (really the perfect all-purpose pocket pen) while the promising but ultimately disappointing Zebra
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NASA’s $100 billion movie trailer.
NASA wants to pump you up: You Will Get Excited About Spending $100 Billion on a Lunar Program (yeah, I wrote that)
Geeks and Suits Rub Shoulders at GigaOm Party
Om Malik and TheLadders.com CEO Mark Cenedella joined forces to throw a cocktail party at San Francisco’s Pier 38 Thursday evening. Was this a turning point for the boomlet of optimism and hope that has been tagged with the lame moniker of “web 2.0”? Maybe, but whether it’s the high water mark or th
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I’ve been outed.
My coworker Kristen Philipkoski outed me as a Vogue subscriber. I only read it for the Jeffrey Steingarten columns, I swear.
Floola: A cure for iTunes poisoning.
I finally found an antidote to the bloated, overgrown, poorly designed mess that is iTunes. It’s a little freeware app called Floola that is just a few megabytes in size and requires no installation, so you can just put the application file on your iPod and run it from there. Floola has a straightfo
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What it takes to make a billion from writing.
Why J.K. Rowling is the first author to make a billion dollars from her writing: Leverage.
Why journalists misquote everyone.
Penelope Trunk explains why you think reporters are always misquoting you: Why journalists misquote everyone — or do they?
We Are Getting Tired of Prying Your Guns out of Your Cold Dead Hands
Headline of the week: We Are Getting Tired of Prying Your Guns out of Your Cold Dead Hands
Party in a NASA Hangar Gives a Glimpse of Space Culture
MOFFETT FIELD, California — Twenty-year Jet Propulsion Laboratory veteran Charles White drove 350 miles from Pasadena to attend what amounted to a rave in Hangar 211 at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View on Friday night. It was worth it, he said. At Yuri’s Night Bay Area, rocket scientis
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Kathy Sierra Case: Few Clues, Little Evidence, Much Controversy
In the mountain of commentary that has been published about the Kathy Sierra affair on blogs and in mainstream publications, one fact has so far remained obstinately unconfirmed: Who was it that posted threatening messages and images on Sierra’s website and on two other blogs? Wired News interviewed
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