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Entries from December 2007

New Tech Series

December 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Over the past several years I have begun to wonder if the trend towards all things new, online and electronic is really better than the non-electronic analog.
There are many areas where the electronic version has eclipsed the original analog format, and others where the electronic version is making serious attempts to usurp the existing analog.
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New Tech Series: Newspapers: is online really better?

December 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments

Many newspapers around the country have embraced what many people have referred to as the Information Age. The current era has also been referred to as the Connected Age:
The Information Age is the age of the knowledge worker. The Connected Age is the age of the web worker. Knowledge workers create and manage information, [...]

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Online Magazine Provides Citation Entries

December 31st, 2007 · No Comments

When reading an article from ScienceDaily that was referenced on Slashdot, I noticed that at the end of the article there was an option to copy a citation reference for either the MLA or APA style.  At first I thought that this might be unique to that particular article, but then after more investigatio, it [...]

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Tags: Research

Blade Runner is almost here, again

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments

On December 18, 2007,  the latest release of the Blade Runner movie will be out.  The Ultimate Collection is going to come in a scaled down imitation of the briefcase that Deckard uses in the film.
It is going to have not only the new edition, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, but also includes the original [...]

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Tags: Movies · Science Fiction

Vacuum or leaf-blower?

December 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment

While watching Shark tonight I saw a commercial for the new Dyson root 6 handheld vacuum cleaner.  The commercial was pretty cool.  It showed the vacuum cleaner being built, in a Lego-like fashion.
Aside from the coolness of the commercial itself, it occurs to me that the design of the root 6 is quite similar to [...]

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