Sometimes auto-generated headlines and images for Banner Ads are complete mismatches. Here is one I came across this morning from iStock. “Over 9 million images that are beautiful, affordable and…” filled with fire, destruction and the end of humanity! But…hey they are beautiful! (not to mention they are SAFE to download! What a relief.)…
Month: April 2012
Advice
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What Kindle Needs: Unified Cloud Storage of All Notes and Highlights
Dear Amazon, I’ve been a Kindle reader since September 2010. I love it. The point of reading an analog book (paper book) has been completely overshadowed by the utility I’ve found in being able to digitally highlight phrases, sentences, words and quotes on the Kindle–and then search those things later–on…
writing
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Totalitarian Regimes and Technology a Note about North Korea's Rocket Program
If there is one thing that History has taught us…it’s that while totalitarian regimes enslave, murder and starve their citizens they can muster great leaps forward with their technology. For example Nazi Germany with the V2 rocket program and Russia with the Sputniks. Both of which soundly beat the West with…
