Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty | Mother Jones →
Rational Republicans still exist, but they’re a dying breed.
Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age - NYTimes.com →
I don’t believe that creators deserve all of the protection that they currently get, but attribution basically makes the world go ‘round. I bet these same students would throw a fit if their “A+” paper was attributed to someone else.
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I’m more of a Mitsubishi guy myself, but these are pretty sweet.
“In the quarter, Amazon said it sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is no Kindle edition. That number includes the last four weeks, when sales increased to 180 electronic books for every 100 hardcover copies.”
“But, trust me: everybody is interested in the person who repeatedly notices the things that are about to stop being impossible.”
Price shocks waiting as US abandons helium business →
“Helium usage elsewhere has continued to rise, though, driven in part by its artificially low price. Even with the lower rate of use, however, we’ll go through the remaining supply within a century.”
Funny how something as trivial as a party balloon uses such a scarce resource.
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The Medium - The Aesthetics of the iPad - NYTimes.com →
“Often an iPad interaction feels like nothing I’ve done before, or nothing I’ve done for a long time or in real life rather than dreams.”
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