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Living Digitally (C. Cantrell)

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Is Verizon the new AT&T?

If you thought AT&T's exclusive access to the iPhone has made them brazen, check out what happened at the Verizon store on Friday while I was checking out the new Motorola Droid... (translate)

Review of the Magic Mouse

Both the good and bad of Apple's latest attempt at the mouse. (translate)

Geek Art: Can You Break the Cipher?

A good friend of mine happens to be a very talented designer and painter. After admiring a painting of his for about a year, he finally decided to give it to me, but not before making some modifications. The name of the painting is now encoded in the metal plates screwed to the canvas. Can you figure out what it is? (translate)

The Free Market Paradox

I realized recently that there's an inherent paradox in the free market system: left to its own devices, the free market will create as little freedom as it possibly can. The most obvious examples are the big famous monopolies like Standard Oil and AT&T, but this happens in much more subtle ways all the time. Here are just a few examples... (translate)

Review of "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow

Little Brother is equal parts scary and fun, but most importantly, it delivers a critical message to young people about technology and democracy. (translate)

The Apple tablet can save comics

As I was reading V for Vendetta the other night, it occurred to me that if this Apple tablet device is real, it could reinvigorate comics and graphic novels even more than all the recent film adaptations. Imagine reading Watchmen and other graphic novels on a big, bright, interactive screen, and having new issues of comics automatically and wirelessly delivered (like newspapers on your Amazon Kindle). Imagine zooming in on panels, listening to voice-overs, and reading comments left by other readers. (translate)

Don't let the food stop moving

The WFP was already forced to discontinue air service to Ivory Coast and Niger in February because of lack of funds. Let's not let that happen again. There's no reason why this problem can't be solved by the end of the week without any of us spending any more time or money than we'll ever miss. (translate)

Top 10 Best Science Fiction Movies

Below is a list of the 10 best science fiction movies that I've seen to date. So what do you think? Agree or disagree? Anything I left off? (translate)

Review of "The Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon

It's not uncommon for me to be slow to warm up to a novel only to find myself writing a glowing review and recommending it by the end. (For some reason, these are the novels I'm most compelled to review.) It happened with Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. It happened again with Douglas Coupland's JPod. And, as you probably guessed by now, it happened most recently with Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark. (translate)

Everything in my life that I value...

Great quote from "The Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon. (translate)

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