Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The story of Jameel Ahed, a robotics engineer who allegedly stole plans for iRobot's military PackBot and nearly beat out the Roomba maker for a $300M Defense Department contract. (Detective Elijah Baley not available for comment.)
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
From Kubrick's The Killing to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, "All fighters are sad," says filmmaker David Mamet.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Typeface experts tear down and analyze the Optima bold typeface used in the McCain campaign logo. Identifies with the Vietnam War Memorial; makes "Schwarzenegger" look good as a running mate; but can be a bit stuffy.
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Much more detailed information from Christianity Today about what the two Democratic presidential candidates talked about at Messiah College's discussion on religion than anything I've seen on CNN.com
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
One artist painted the be-strip-ed-one on a secret Vancouver rooftop visible to satellites used by Google Earth. Can you find him?
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Microsoft marketers tell how they tried to portray the Halo 3 hero as the savior of humanity, and not a "reckless American cowboy," making the jump from hardcore gamers to pop culture in the process.
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
When you google yourself, you find other people with the same name as yourself. Why do we feel an automatic kinship?, asks The New York Times.
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
When you google yourself, you find other people with the same name as yourself. Why do we feel an automatic kinship?, asks The New York Times.
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
When you google yourself, you find other people with the same name as yourself. Why do we feel an automatic kinship?, asks The New York Times.
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
When you google yourself, you find other people with the same name as yourself. Why do we feel an automatic kinship?, asks The New York Times.
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