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Kindle 3rd Generation Review: Dislikes
This continues the review of the 3rd generation Kindle. Today, the dislikes. Read the likes here. Dislikes Having to buy a cover is silly, and a too-obvious attempt at nickel…
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Texting Leads To Sexting…Leads To Bad Television
Researchers Find What they find is a way to publish yet another study documenting what everybody already knew. According to this article, sent in by reader Jack Mosevich, researchers have…
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John Cage’s 4′ 33″
As much as I think his theories are composed of aether, I wish, and heartily too, that John Cage's masterpiece 4' 33" were pumped through public speakers more often. I…
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Music Not So Super At Super Bowl: Faked Cheering?
Oh, say, can you see, by the field's klieg lights, what so proudly we hailed? And proudly hailed to the world over in full Dolby surround-sound HD. What an embarrassment!…
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Oscar Statistics: Money, Men, and Maturity; Plus Our Predictions
This article was written with the assistance of the very employable John Briggs, who did all the grunt work. Also see And The Winner Goes To...Oscar Statistics Wrap Up. Which…
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And The Winner Goes To…Oscar Statistics Wrap Up
Our model was right: The King's Speech won. In this weekend's Oscar Statistics post, we modeled the chances of each nominated movie. We guessed that the movie most likely to…
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Vicar Of Vintage Vinyl Vanquished: Danny Stiles Dead At 87
It finally happened, though we thought, we hoped, he would go on forever. Danny Stiles, radio personality in the New York metro area for over 60 years, died on Friday,…
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Freeman Dyson, NPR, TSA X-rays, Northwestern University’s Bachelor Party
The Lady Tasting Tea continues tomorrow. Freeman Dyson Speaks From our man-on-the-spot WS comes this link to an interview with Freeman Dyson regarding his work "In Praise of Heretics." That…
