Blog Focus on Books and Dirty Looks
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This week each year reminds us most of our wasted youth as those hours cannot tick fast enough to get us to the long weekend. It's like being stuck in English class and the whole class is mesmerized by the second hand on the clock more than the person speaking in the front of the room.
(For you kids, clocks used to have hands. It was a magical time with wizards and hobbits and handsy clocks. Ask your parents.)
While you're daydreaming and pretending to pay attention to your boss/teacher/firefighter asking you to put down the laptop and run out of the burning building, you should also enjoy these delightful notes from the blogs today that are also reminiscent of school days of yore.
And no skipping school otherwise you'll have to stay after work and read the blogs you missed.
• 30 Days of Innovation (CNET) —Sharon Vaknin finds a new player in the e-reader market that aims to be the branded giveaway pen of the market sector: the Ditto Book lets you load your content and your logo onto their e-reader for you to distribute.
• Ars Technica — Nate Anderson warns you shouldn't try to do your online research at the library after school unless you're sure your local bookloaner is one of the few to have sufficient bandwidth to support you. Most libraries are woefully short on bandwidth due to lack of funds or last-mile pipeline.
• Download Squad — And, for heaven's sake, be careful if you use your laptop in class to surf the Web while the professor blathers on about conduction or some such. Sebastian Anthony notes it's possible that laptop is running super hot because you've been using that CPU hog of a browser. If only you understood why your lap gets hot when the laptop heats up...
• technabob — ... hell, who are we kidding? You're not paying attention. We give up. We might as just tell you about the new games at the Atari Arcade. Our day will be lost on Lunar Lander, thanks.
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