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by waster 13y ago
Great; so next time I sneeze, I'll accidentally turn on the garbage disposal? Seriously, though, it reminds me of the "house of the future" from one of those ubiquitous films they showed us in elementary school way back in the day.
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by waster 13y ago
Depression lies! And there's help out there. You are not alone. Bravo to Stephen Fry for going public.
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by waster 13y ago
Noting that the words "Forget Google Glass" are appearing with high frequency these days in the media.
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Forget Google Glass. These Are the Interfaces of the Future(wired.com)
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by waster 13y ago
"Independent of his age, he has ideas coming out of his mind minute-by-minute," Yamamoto says. "He's so full of energy from all these ideas he has over the weekend, that every Monday morning he can't wait to call me and talk to me about th
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by waster 13y ago
Have to agree that teachers are already overwhelmed, by and large; and that IT staff tends to be minimal, most certainly underpaid, and possibly under-qualified (in the case of teachers moonlighting as IT staff in their spare time). Many pe
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How online learning is reinventing college(csmonitor.com)
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by waster 13y ago
Reading about Jason Trigg reminds me of Carlo Lorenzo Garcia of Living Philanthropic ( http://livingphilanthropic.tumblr.com ), who spent a year giving to a charity a day. He didn't have much to give, but he blogged about it and had quite a
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by waster 13y ago
Maybe I'll have to write that.
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by waster 13y ago
Mild, or self-limiting or otherwise transitory. I know (closely) three people in two different countries who have a 15/100,000 disease that is self-limiting.
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by waster 13y ago
Yes and no. I have lurked for ages, and just finally created an account and haven't finished building it (i.e., linking it to anything else). I intend to, eventually, when I stop reading the ridiculously high number of excellent posts, and
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by waster 13y ago
This just doubles my question from reading the original post: A full half-hour, for a six-page memo? Are these incredibly dense and full of new information to the readers? People don't really read that slowly. Average adult reading speed is
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by waster 13y ago
This strikes a chord and speaks something about cultural interactions. Ages ago, when I was at university, I spent a semester in a Soviet bloc country. There were no clubs other than the Party-run ones; few movies to go see, little to buy i