With the mixed feelings of sadness and accomplishment that typically comes with finishing an engrossing (and challenging) novel, I closed the back cover this weekend on Neal Stephenson’s Anathem. I’m astonished still by how well Stephenson was able...
Topics: Anathem, Fiction, Neal Stephenson, Science Fiction, SF, speculative fiction

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I spent some time at my local library branch the other day, and it reminds me of how these spaces foster curiosity, questions and, at times, even a dazzling sense of wonder. That was how I felt when I walked into the Reading Room at the British Museum a..
Topics: Books, British Library, British Museum, Library, London, Reading Room, Travel, United Kingdom

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MacFormat posted some feature ideas and lovely mockups of the long-awaited, still-hypothetical Apple device known variously as the iTablet, iSlate, and, most recently, iPad in its various rumor mill incarnations.This iPhone OS-based configuration makes...
Topics: Apple, Gadgets, Technology

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Go to the WOWIO site for details.
Topics: Uncategorized, WOWIO

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) designer Yves Behar highlights some of the interesting concepts behind the second-generation XO machine envisioned for the 2010 timeframe on the TEDBlog. Despite OLPC’s oft-discussed organizational problems and the usability.
Topics: Ebooks, OLPC, Technology, XO

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