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November 16, 2009
- This weekend I was in Miami for the Miami Book Fair International, promoting my book How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons—a book that will change your life and a really great gift idea at only $9.99. They put me up in the Hyatt Regency, which, as it happens, was the setting for the official launch of the Trump Network. “Success does not just happen,” Donald Trump has said, ...
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November 9, 2009
- (from The Publeconomist) Furniture-makers, beware. You’d think that with the buzz surrounding the new Barnes & Noble e-book reader, Nook, that I’d be able to go furniture shopping and get a pleasantly discounted bookshelf. Unfortunately, Ikea isn’t biting. I do believe in the future of e-books, both for computers and little devices like Nook. I think that there’s incredible value that ...
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November 8, 2009
- For more on my book The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning To Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors visit http://thepeepdiaries.com There’s so much Peep culture in the daily news, I can barely read it all, let alone blog about it. And yet I know I should be doing a way better job of getting everything that’s happening out there onto the blog. But I just can’t keep up. I need an ...
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October 26, 2009
- A friend who writes thrillers for young adults commented recently via Twitter that it gets harder and harder to put characters in credible peril when cell phones are everywhere. And there are only so many times you can get away with, "Oh no, dead battery!" or "Oh no, I can't get a signal!"I also heard a discussion with a television writer on NPR (forgive my foggy memory, maybe ...
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October 24, 2009
- The Kiyora (which translates to clean and pure) might just be the showstopper when it is revealed to the press on October 21. Mazda has just released new photos and details of the Kiyora to a crowd of mixed reactions. The Japanese Anime styling seems to provoke love-hate emotions from the Mazda community. Is it a hatchback? Why is it smiling at me? It looks very leafy. These are just a few of ...
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October 1, 2009
- FlashScan3D along with its research partner, the University of Kentucky, received a grant from the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop non-contact fingerprint. Image Credit: FlashScan3D 3D "Digit" Image Capture - A Better Fingerprint ID A new way to capture an image of a human fingerprint has emerged from the labs of the ...
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September 28, 2009
- I fear the act of browsing is endangered by internet shopping, something which came home to me recently when I ventured inside a video rental store for the first time in months.
We belong to an online movie rental service, which means we select which movies to watch by clicking a few keys. I suppose you can browse, sort of, by narrowing genre, and the home page tries to suggest movies we might ...
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September 22, 2009
- Author Recommends Book – The Age of Wonder Title: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2009. Author: Richard Holmes Author Webpage: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth119 Available in Hardback and paperback Paperback: 380 pages Publisher : HarperPress (3 Sep 2009) Language ...
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August 24, 2009
- Sometimes, it still surprises me how fast I got over the pleasures I thought I received from talking on the phone. I must have spent half my life on the phone in middle and high school, and then, as a young woman, I so enjoyed those hours talking with old friends. My husband might have taken the out for a stroll or to the park, and I curled up on a chair or sofa or bed and talked. I caught ...
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August 21, 2009
- Ironically, my GPS is lost.Sure, I should probably say it is 'missing' or that I lost it, but knowing my luck, it is sitting in the dark - wherever it is - thinking, "If only I had some sort of map..."True, this would require my GPS to be an unintelligent intelligent being, but stranger things have happened. And, with my luck, should I be the person to own the first GPS system to become ...
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