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Instead of zinging friends and family with emails suggesting they read such and such, look at what have you, and the like, imagine having one central repository where items of interest could be marked, perhaps even given context, and in the process save people from the incessant pelting of little notes. It's worth a try.
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Whoa!
Digital Cells: Science News Online, April 26, 2003 In the past few years, scientists have taken the first steps towards creating a host of cellular robots that are programmed to carry out tasks such as detecting and cleaning up environmental pollutants, tracking down cancer cells in a body, and manufacturing antibiotics or molecular-scale electronic components. These researchers have imported notions of electrical engineering - digital logic, memory, and oscillators - into the realm of biology. Their plan: to create cells with computer programs hardwired into the DNA.
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11:36 PM
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29.4.03  |
Apple announces not-so-secret iPods and music service
For some interesting, unchallenging coverage of this much heralded event, Fortune has a series of 'exclusive' articles with Steve Jobs about the new Apple music sevice and the iPod players released today at 1:00 p.m.
Songs in the Key of Steve, Leader of the Digital Music Pack?, Which Celebs Are Fans?, iTunes Music Store: How It Works, Gifts for the Grad: Apple iPod
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3:23 PM
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28.4.03 |
Those were the days...
I was thinking yesterday, as I do many a Saturday, how much I miss the seriously ridiculous show Style, hosted by the inimitable Elsa Klensch. It used to be on at 2 pm on Saturdays, and was an ideal half hour of self-important fashion nut jobs strutting around and saying things like, "the shawl is my fantasy." Of course, Saturdays now offer no real time to watch this show, but I lament its being relegated to Saturday 10:30 a.m., and Sunday at 6:30 a.m. It's things like this that make me think I need TiVo.
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12:09 AM
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RadioParadise streams out what they call eclectic, intelligent rock. I think it's a perfect example of why Wired says Internet Radio Makes Bigger Waves. The article says that, 'More than 100 million listeners have tried Web radio and the number of regular monthly listeners has tripled in the last three years, according to ratings agency Arbitron.'
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11:42 PM
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27.4.03 |
A really intriguing PBS Frontline Cyber War!, has been posted to the net, with the whole show available online. The emphasis is on efforts already underway both to harm the US net, as well as to safeguard it. Alarming how few nodes (less than 8) are claimed to exist that control US access to the internet, domestically and internationally.
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11:58 PM
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26.4.03 |
From Wordsmith's Word-A-Day listserv:
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
-Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998)
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11:49 PM
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24.4.03 |
mailto:tblanton@gwu.edu
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8:38 AM
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 Finished Dean King's Patrick O'Brian [A Life Revealed]
 and moving on to James McPherson's Crossroads of Freedom.
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8:35 AM
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Prolegomenon
pro·le·gom·e·non n. pl. pro·le·gom·e·na (-n)
A preliminary discussion, especially a formal essay introducing a work of considerable length or complexity.
prolegomena (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Prefatory remarks or observations.
[Greek, from neuter present passive participle of prolegein, to say beforehand : pro-, before; see pro-2 + legein, to speak; see leg- in Indo-European Roots.]
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c.f. prole·gome·nous adj.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Ed.
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Who knew? Not me.
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23.4.03 |
Louise is recently playing quite a bit (and myself, over her shoulder) of Yahoo's Bookworm, which is a free word game or puzzle. I'm sufficiently geeky that my favorite part of it is reading the text "Note: Bookworm is not compatible with Unix or Macintosh computers." as we play on her iBook.
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1:43 PM
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Dad and I are headed to UD tonight for a talk on aerial espionage by Thomas Blanton, Director, National Security Archive, as part of the Spies, Lies, and Sneaky Guys lecture series.
It should be pretty interesting.
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11:12 AM
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Orin's Blog
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1:18 AM
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Another address for this page... http://tinyurl.com/a43i
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1:09 AM
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An update for the sake of testing... wrestling with FTP path names and Comcast's morbidly stupid Windoze-centric web site. Ugh.
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12:31 AM
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New Blogger ID# is 5309732
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11:55 AM
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22.4.03 |
A feasability study more than anything. A trial balloon.
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11:34 AM
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