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Found photo: Genius? Or idiotic?
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I've noticed a trend online recently of new services whose main feature is that they hardly do anything. Twitter was the first major site in that new trend, which boldly asserted its limitations as features. "You can't send more than 140 characters!" "No pictures!" "No formatting!" "It does hardly anything!" Welcome to the future. The less-is-more world is here. Get used to it. And whether you're going to argue with an iPad fan about why netbooks are better, don't bother with listing what the iPad cannot do. Limitations are what society want now. (Read)
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Playboy Enterprises has inked a deal with 2K Games for the product-placement of Playboy magazines all by scenes in the game Mafia II.
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Mar
Lecturing professors nowadays face a room full of students paying full attention — to their laptops.
A lecture, by definition, is a method of teaching whereby a person talks and an audience pays attention. But a laptop is an interruption machine that fragments attention. Lectures and laptops are incompatible activities.
Some professors have addressed the fundamental incompatibility of lectures and laptops by banning the laptops. But perhaps it would be better to keep the laptops and ban the lectures. Here’s why.
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