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Hitler Finds Out…

For the last year or so, there's been a web meme going around where people replace the sub-titles in the bunker scene from the German movie “Downfall” with

100 Things Your Kids Will Never Know About

Living in the age of e-mail, Facebook and pre-authorized payment, I had a moment with Pace today that is a rarity in today's world.  When I bought my

Out With The Old, In WIth the New(s): Two Views of The Future of Newspapers

I recently came across two articles that propose radically different visions of the future of newspapers.  The two articles took specific interest in the New York Times which

Head Tale Blog – Mobile Version

Amazing what getting a mobile phone will do in terms of making your realise that your blog is quite, uhm…heavy…with all kinds of marginally useful widgets, random links

Cory Doctorow on Copyright

Because Cory Doctorow's new novel, “Little Brother” is the first e-book I'm reading on my iPhone (very readable, thank-you very much), I got to see his copyright notice

Music Monday – "As for the whole thing we are/Ever smaller than you think/Yet on our own plain/We're giants building statues of ourselves."

I found out about Paul MacLeod because I saw that Hawksley Workman had produced one of his early  albums.  (Oh, I see Hawksley did a few of them

iPhone App Summary…So Far

Well, it's been five days with the iPhone and I'd say that it's a tie between the camera and the Apps for what I'm enjoying the most on

A 15 Year Old Intern in the UK Writes a Report For Morgan Stanley on How Teens Use Different Media Types –

You can read the report then the MetaFilter commentary to get an idea of why this report garnered such a reaction – positive, negative and just in terms

Some Random Thoughts About My New iPhone

After contemplating it for…well, pretty much ever since the first iPhone came out…I finally broke down and bought one of the 32GB 3GS models today.  To be honest,

Friday Fun Link – The Crack Cocaine of Auction Sites (July 10, 2009)

This article talks about a new auction site called Swoopo.com which is apparently super-addictive.  The gimmick is that the site is sort of like a cross between an

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