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newsobserver.com | Web generation uses libraries more than others:
Young adults are the heaviest adult users of public libraries, despite the ease with which they can access a wealth of information over the Internet from the comfort of their homes, according to a new study.

That was the opening paragraph from an article that appeared in today’s […]

I saw a short pictorial review done by Ewan Macintosh yesterday, and it seemed like a good way to bring 2007 to a close.  Little did I know how hard it would be to pick just the right shots from 2,074 pictures in my iPhoto from the last 12 months.  So scroll through quickly if […]

For years, Brenda and I have preferred shopping at Circuit City for our electronics desires — over competitor, Best Buy.  I’ve felt that their sales staff have always been more knowledgeable and more eager and skilled at serving customers.  However, this year, it seems to have flip-flopped.  Several weeks ago, I was forced to visit […]

Warning: This post rates pretty high on the geek index.
I started to blog about this a few weeks ago, when I first ran across it. But realizing that I am probably the only person I know who would get excited about something like this, I decided to put it aside. However, after spend […]

It looks like a somewhat sleeker version of the Etch-A-Sketch I got for Christmas when I was somewhat less than 10 years old.  This puppy, however, sports bott T-DMB and S-DMB, displaying at an astounding 800 X 480 resolution LCD, a SiRFstarIII GPS chipset and two 1.5-watt speakers — and absolutely no aluminum powder.
To bring […]

I got wind of this through an e-mail from Jeff Whipple and then his blog, which I think speaks better than I could right now.  Jeff writes…
Some edubloggers have been discussing the idea of “social capital”, the premise that the connections you bring to an organization through digital networking can be of significant vale. For […]

This is not a joke.  Researchers at Duke University refined a study conducted by Japanese scientists earlier this month that found that young chimpanzees were better at memory games than human adults.  The Duke study was the first that examined whether or not non-human primates could make explict decisions that were based on mathematical calculations.
The […]

Just in from the PEW Internet and American Life Project, more teens are producing digital content.  I’m commenting on the front page summary in this article.  You can download the entire PDF report here.
Pew Internet: Teens and Social Media:
Content creation by teenagers continues to grow, with 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging […]

Internet Archive: Details: Twas the Night Before Christmas:
The Crippled Macintosh Rehabilitation Clinic is known the world over for its talented yet challenged hardware. Here we hear the vocal stylings of an ensemble of powerbooks, the Crippled Macintosh Rehabilitation Choir, reading a classic Christmas tale.

Admittedly, I didn’t listen to the whole thing, but I know how […]

Just finished a very cold mile walk (23f/-5c) to the coffee shop where, after warming my hads around a tall decaf, I’m writing about tag clouds.   In looking for examples, I ran across Pollster.com, where they have posted two blog entries that include tag clouds of the presidential debates.  On April 27 they included the […]

The WIRED Gadget Lab headline reads, Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube in 6 Seconds.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has serious problems on its mind: getting a robot to beat humans at solving Rubik’s cube being among the weightiest. According to TokyoMango, the robot looks at the six sides, calculates the solution in about 1 second, and then sets […]

First of all, there is nothing new about this.  It’s been a part of science fiction lore since the beginning of science fiction.  But as I have had more time to dip into my aggregator, I’ve noticed a handful of interesting articles about consumer robots. 
One thing that is interesting to me is that they […]

I heard about this, while listening to a talk contest show on NPR, driving home from the coffeeshop this morning.  According to the initial newspaper report, the clerk at a Dunkin’ Donuts foiled at robbery attempt by bopping the assailant over the head with a “big heavy ceramic” tip jar.  When asked what was going […]