My birthday present to myself arrived yesterday: the new Barnes & Noble "nook" ebook reader.

As you probably know, ebooks and ebook readers have been a hobby of mine for a while now. I'm rather passionate about ebooks. So of course I had to get a nook to see how it stacks up.


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Why don't modern cars have more external sensors?

Sure, some minvans have backup sensors so it beeps if you're about to run over little Timmy, but it seems like sensor technology hasn't gone anywhere in a long time.


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Analog Man in the Digital Age
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The Engineer's Dilemma

Being a Somewhat Rambling Musing on the Information Age

We live in an interesting time. We have come out of the Industrial Age and into the Information Age. More and more the world is connected digitally, but paradoxically, people feel more lost than ever ( Read more... )

If you tried to email me at my tev (at) tev (dot) net account in the past two weeks, I didn't get it - there was some kind of glitch at Points South that resulted in my mail bouncing instead of getting through ( Read more... )

As excited as I was about OLPC, I'm even more excited about OLPC 2.0It takes the OLPC design and makes it smaller, sleeker, and hopefully, more usable ( Read more... )

So tonight Adam and I messed around with the new antenna, we disconnected the Charter Cable connection and hooked the antenna up in its place. Tivo and Adam's new TV recognized several digital signals. Olde TVs without digital tuners (the one in my bedroom, and the one in Adam's livingroom) will need digital tuner boxes, but with Tivo working ( Read more... )

So the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) program finally launched!
Yay for Nick Negroponte!


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