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TeleRead
Ron Miller at Fierce Content Management has obtained a review unit of Astak’s EZReader Pocket Pro (the same one I’ve been reviewing in recent weeks) and used it to examine Google’s e-book offerings. It is not clear from the article whether he downloaded the PDF or EPUB versions of the books he chose to read. [...]
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Phil Bradley
More thoughts on Google Images
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If you've not read my first blog post on the Michelle Obama image fiasco you might want to start there first. I should also point out that I'm going to be referring to some words that people might find offensive in this post - I've used asterisks and don't really think anyone will be upset, but it's your personal call. Google's concept of images ...
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Pattern Recognition
Google Chrome OS on a Dell Mini 9
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Google Chrome OS running on a Dell Mini 9. It looks like most everything works (touchpad, including tap-to-click, sound, video at full rez)…except the wireless. Hardwired connectivity works fine, though. Maybe in an updated build they’ll add drivers for the mini 9 wireless. Anyone else out there having success getting it running on a ...
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The entertainment industry, as of late, has been more than vocal about the butthurt they have endured at the hands of dirty pirates who steal their music. What they don’t realize is that these people actually help them.
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Random House Children's Books are looking for innovative and enthusiastic event organisers to organise an exclusive library tour for Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell! Bestselling partnership Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell are best known for The Edge Chronicles , which has sold over 2 million copies and is translated in to 20 different languages.
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LISNews
Kate DiCamillo event in Delaware
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Children's book author Kate DiCamillo appeared at a Delaware bookstore last weekend, and gave a great Q&A with the kids in attendance:
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The Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education said today it will provide up to $9 million in grants to a group of states -- including Indiana -- to help fund efforts to deliver a college education in new ways, more affordably....
The First Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1676 Congressional Proclamation of Thanksgiving, 1782 President George Washington's General Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day, 1863 [JH]
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Libraries Closed for Thanksgiving
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The Olathe Public Library and the Indian Creek Branch Library will close Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 5 pm and will remain closed Thursday, Nov. 26 and Friday, Nov. 27. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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UN Pulse
Thanksgiving Day and Eid al-Adha
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The UN Headquarters in New York will be closed Thursday, 26 November, in observance of Thanksgiving and Friday, 27 November, in observance of Eid al-Adha. No further items will be added to UN Pulse until Monday, 30 November 2009....
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New drivers' licenses and identification cards are here. For details click here or on the IDNM graphic to go to the informational IDNM.us web site.
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SEDIC
Un poco por obligación, ya que lo celebraba la organización a la que pertenezco, y bastante por devoción, ya que el tema me interesa, he asistido los días 24 y 25 de noviembre al encuentro Retos para una formación innovadora. Este encuentro, organizado en el marco del Año Europeo para la Innovación y la Creatividad, [...]
Англоязычная часть онлайн-энциклопедии Wikipedia второй год подряд заняла первую строчку рейтинга самых влиятельных сайтов в мире, составленном изданием ReadWriteWeb. Рейтинг составляется на основе �
Last weekend I picked up the New York Review of Books, and was pleased to discover that Dr. Jerome Groopman offers a contrarian take on evidence-based medicine.
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I think I'll take about half an hour to wake up properly and then sort the laundry, start the laundry, attack the bathroom, then the kitchen, and then the living room, which is the most cluttered of all. It has things like the printer box (I kept it for a little while in case I had to return it) and the stuff that came out of the car. I'd like to ...
Contemporary Accounts of the 1621 Thanksgiving at Plimmoth Source Materials on the Plimmoth Plantation [JH]
Более 150 тыс. человек за последние две недели использовали мобильный интернет-доступ для посещения Байнета - белорусского сегмента интернета. Об этом сообщил сегодня руководитель аналитичес
L&C Law Student Brandon McNamee: “Giving Our Soldiers What They Deserve” :: Military Counseling Program
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Tarlton Library News
New locations for Texas materials, law journals, and state codes
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In preparation for the closure of the 5th and 6th floors of Jones Hall on December 18, you’ll find some books and journals in new homes on the 2nd (main) floor. Texas materials (call numbers KFT 1201-1799), formerly on the 5th floor, have been transferred to stacks 219-222 in the 2nd floor reading room. Law reviews (call [...]
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Inkscape. Draw Freely.An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. More of my links
Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned
Philip Carter, Official Charged With Closing Guantanamo, Quits
On the first of January every year works from around the world fall out of copyright and into the public domain. But, how do we know which works fall into the public domain when?
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Newspapers have been hit hard by the economy and by shifts in advertising and readership, and the venerable Washington Post is feeling the pinch. Fox News reports that the Post is closing its bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, and will be concentrating more on local news from now on. But this is [...]
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Posted doctorow: American Library Assocation and @shifted throw a smashing games day! . Posted jowyang: Related: My take on how speakers need to integrate social technologies into their presentation . Shared Where to Find Live Music Online « [...]
As I will be away from the computer. Early tomorrow morning my stepfather is coming up to get me and take me to Stanford or Danville (I'm not sure which) so we can have Thanksgiving dinner before my mother goes to work at 2:30 (my mom's a nurse, and that often means working on holidays). I'm going to stay overnight at my grandmother's. She hasn't ...
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