I don’t know whether or not to be thankful that someone out there had the presence of mind to create the libwpd suite of conversion utilities. On the one hand, it has allowed me to rescue dozens (hundreds?) of poems, short stories, essays, notes, starts to novels, completed novellas, lists, and other assorted writings from being […]
Project Orion: unpublished documents (a photoset on Flickr by Xeni) (tags: future history news surreal research) Please Standby Ars Technica article (via /.) about “standby” power consumption, energy and cost savings, and the “1W” initiative – – a “MUST READ” (tags: essay environment energy tech hardware future todo)
The Bitch I’m Broke Method (Date Added is in the last 6 months, Genre does not contain Mix; Limit to 10 items selected by most often played.) The Rapture “Pieces of the People We Love” TV on the Radio “Wolf Like Me” Tokyo Police Club “Nature of the Experiment” Under the Influence of Giants “In […]
Via /.: A new paper out of Cornell (PDF) finds a compelling correlation between TV viewing in young children (3 years old and younger) and incidents of autism. Being no fan of television myself, I’m certainly intrigued by the proposition – – anything to cut down on the television. My problem with the article/thesis/whatever (however) […]