CQ2 | Ed Murphy

Wikipedia has a new capability to create books out of articles.  For example, a friend is on a trip this week to the Holy Land.  Based on her itinerary, I created a collection of articles that I thought might be relevant as background for her.

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I’m reading Mark Hurst’s Bit Literacy,  which can be found in the productivity pr0n section of the nerd bookstore.  It’s a good book, worth reading, and it’s full of clear advice on how to deal with the deluge of ‘bits’ — digital information — in our lives.  But I have one problem with it: email.

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Inland Empire history, such as it is, tends to have a boosterish, great men and dates, ever upward, back of the real estate guide flavor to it, so I was surprised to learn from the late great Carey McWilliams* that anti-Chinese riots, which swept the American West at the turn of the last century, reached our fair city:

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When we travelled to Australia this summer, I needed to get a new DVD player for our kids to occupy them on the long flights. (If you’re going to complain about kids watching TV to me, first make sure you have kids. Then talk to me.) But, instead, I decided to get a cheap $200 netbook, a discontinued Dell Mini 9. I ripped a bunch of kid’s videos, which we own, and put them on a USB stick (the Dell has a tiny SSD HD) and they had a functioning DVD player and I had a little computer, too.

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HP “Create Amazing” – Director’s Cut byKeith Loutit from Bob Gifford via Andrew Sullivan.

[09 Nov 2009: well, this video got pulled until the director clears rights with HP et al.  -- too bad; it's very cool, and I was providing free advertising for HP]