August 26, 2011
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Wired has an interesting article on the state of eTextbook publishing, and the opportunities that are being wasted while the publishers focus on crippling their products with restrictive DRM and archaic pricing models: iPad, I Saw, I Waited: The State … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), the French photographer who redefined both photojournalism and his craft as an art form, is being celebrated in a major exhibition – Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World – at the Queensland Art Gallery … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
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When we asked to go there he said “No! You cannot escape from this place.” Snowboarding photography has come a really long way. The scenes of jumping over trees are just amazing: Official Site: The Art of Flight
August 26, 2011
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Like No Other View On Earth On 23 August 1966, NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of Earth from the moon’s orbit, and it forever changed how we see our home planet. In this day and age, it … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered his government to repatriate $11 billion in gold held in banks abroad to safeguard the country from the economic crisis and said he’ll nationalize the local gold industry. Venezuela has about 211 tons of its … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
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On 25 August 1991, Linus Torvalds wrote: Hello everybody out there using minix – I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
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The retirement of Steve Jobs led me to think about what it was that has made Apple so different from all the other tech companies I have watched over the past 34 years since I purchased my first Apple computer. … Continue reading