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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Some wishes for Kindle booksI love reading Kindle books but wish it would support these things:An app for book signings. A strength of print books is the ability to get the author's autograph, turning the book into a keepsake. How can Kindle readers, for example, be...
OneNote has been a great productivity tool, but...I thoroughly enjoy OneNote for personal productivity. It's amazingly powerful. For example, if you paste the URL of a YouTube video to a OneNote page, it will automatically insert the video on that page so you can...
Target Traffic Is Falling
Via Business Insider: The number of transactions at Target fell 3 to 4 percent compared with last year's final weekend before Christmas, while, transactions at other retailers were strong, the Journal said, citing estimates by retail consultancy Customer Growth...
Google’s Schaft Robot Dominates Pentagon Contest
Via Wall Street Journal: Schaft Inc.’s robot dominated the two-day Pentagon Robotics Challenge Trials this weekend in Florida, where 16 teams competed at the NASCAR race track south of Miami for one of eight slots to secure more federal development funds.…Schaft,...
Google’s Schaft Robot Dominates Pentagon Contest
Via Wall Street Journal: Schaft Inc.’s robot dominated the two-day Pentagon Robotics Challenge Trials this weekend in Florida, where 16 teams competed at the NASCAR race track south of Miami for one of eight slots to secure more federal development funds.…Schaft,...
Mikhail Kalashnikov’s Death And His Greatest Regret
Via Business Insider: Kalashnikov [inventor of the AK-47] had mixed feelings about his success. "I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower," he said on a visit to Germany in...
Mikhail Kalashnikov’s Death And His Greatest Regret
Via Business Insider: Kalashnikov [inventor of the AK-47] had mixed feelings about his success. "I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower," he said on a visit to Germany in...
What is a City For?
Via Newgeography.com: Living well should not be about where one lives, but how one lives, and for whom. Families can thrive in many places, but these bearers of the next generation are not the primary focus of much of the urbanist community. I am referring here to...